Head over to Soundcloud (or any of our other hosting services via the buttons above) to hear our latest episode with Adela Goldsmith about queer elders, our love/hate relationship with museums (some we really love), the value of experiential knowledge, the importance and innate queerness of archives, the future of museums (is there one?), the roles of care networks, mutual aid, and queer methodologies during this historic moment, what the Critical Bounds drinking game would look like, and "What is a Career?".
Adela Goldsmith is an independent art scholar and curator, who graduated from Smith College with a BA in Art History and a concentration in Museum Studies, wherein they completed a project which examines the relationship between the development of museums’ permanent collections and archival documentation.
They have held curatorial internships at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as an archives internship in artist Cass Bird’s studio, and was a Junior Assistant at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.
Currently, Goldsmith has joined forces with the think-tank/research lab known as the Institute of Museums Against All Fucked Up Social Systems (IMAAFUSS), which explores adaptive solutions for experiencing art collectively and critiquing arts institutions in the midst of a catastrophic pandemic and a watershed reckoning with racism and inequity in the cultural sector and beyond. They have also gotten involved with the soon-to-debut mutual aid and resource-sharing network, Aid for Art Now (A4AN), which aims to support and sustain current and prospective arts workers and create a more inclusive and accessible museum field.
Their curatorial practice focuses on the intersections of queerness, archival
impulse, and institutional memory.
