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 through practices of collection, display, and interpretation. Massey’s curatorial credits include exhibitions at the Greenville County Museum of Art and the Gregg Museum of Art & Design. His poetry appears in Petrichor, Alien Magazine, and Defunct Magazine, and his criticism is forthcoming in West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture; The Winterthur Portfolio; and Panorama. Massey is an Eagle Scout.