Cook Out
Rashida Bumbray, former Exhibition Coordinator with the Studio Museum in Harlem has switched gears to head downtown to The Kitchen. Rashida makes this move after five and a half years serving the long-time Harlem arts institution first as a curatorial assistant and later as the exhibition coordinator. During her tenure at the Studio Museum she has overseen and co-produced acclaimed exhibitions such as Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 2004, co-curated with Thelma Golden and Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964-1980 with Kellie Jones.
At The Kitchen, which was created in the 70s by new media artists, Rashida will serve as Assistant Curator, a role that will utilize her love for experimental practices in visual art, music, dance, and theater. She'll work alongside executive director and chief curator Deb Singer, former curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Speaking of theater, the renaissance woman is also a member of Progress Theatre, an ensemble whose mission is to create work that interrogates society and inspires transformation. The theater group just completed a sold-out run at Harlem's Apollo Theater last April. Rashida's next project is a response to the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. Entitiled "Sign of the Judgement: A Ring Shout for Katrina," she will install praise/shout houses for the "ring shout" ceremony as a method of healing for Katrina survivors in Houston.