Founded in 2023, the Lunder Institute Summer Think Tank is an annual initiative that brings together artists, scholars, museum professionals, and culture-bearers in a fertile space to engage in dialogue. A conversation-based program, the Summer Think Tank raises pressing questions in the field of American art, with the aim of advancing new ideas, methodologies, and relationship building. As an incubator for research and practice, the Summer Think Tank provides a platform for fostering, documenting, and sharing the exchange of knowledge. Though Summer Think Tank conversations are not open to the general public, each discussion is recorded and preserved in our oral history archive for researchers to access.

In the summer of 2024, the Lunder Institute will bring together practitioners—including artists, curators, writers, performers, culture-bearers, and other scholars—to center Indigenous artists and art histories, resurgent practices, and the building of sovereign archives/futures. Through this program, the Lunder Institute and its invited thought leaders will host conversations and document new histories of the ways Indigenous practitioners remake, refuse, and reimagine new worlds and narratives.