Joshua Massey is a doctoral candidate at Bard Graduate Center, where he studies the object worlds of the contemporary American South. His dissertation, “The Art Outside: Black Yard Shows in the New South,” explores the environmental installations of four Black artists in Alabama and Mississippi and the social worlds those spaces engender. Massey’s curatorial credits include exhibitions at the Greenville County Museum of Art and the Gregg Museum of Art & Design. His poetry appear in Petrichor, Alien Magazine, and Defunct Magazine, and his art criticism is forthcoming in West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture and Panorama. Massey is an Eagle Scout.