Hi, I'm Brittany, and Eric, unfortunately, is not with me today.

He had to attend to some family business, so he is out this week.

But we are so still for colored nerds

the conversations that black people have when white people are not in the room but we record them

and we put them on the internet uh tell our business because that's what we like to do um but in eric stead

have a wonderful co-host that i'm so excited. I'm so excited this year. So in the studio

today, we have the founder of Black Contemporary Art, Kim Drew. So yay. Yay. Hi. Thanks for having

me. Oh, my pleasure. I'm so excited. I'm excited that you're here. I've been following black

contemporary art probably since you started it, like not too long after. Like I found you guys on Tumblr and I was just like about it, about it.

But let me backtrack. I should allow you to explain who you are and what black contemporary art is.

Yes. I work in the arts by trade, but about five years ago, almost five years. Next year is our fifth anniversary, which is very exciting. I started

the blog, Black Contemporary Art after doing an internship at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2010.

I was at the museum and I kind of got there after declaring an art history major and wasn't

really sure what the hell I was going to do with my life because I was also in college and

you know you're just not sure.

No.

You kind of like, I'm just going to do me for as long as that feels right. I had a great advisor

at Kevin Quashi at Smith College who strongly encouraged me to work at the Schaumburg

Center or at the Studio Museum in Harlem during the summertime. And because of my socioeconomic

situation, I needed a paid internship and Studio Museum has that, which is very rare and very, very, very, very important and paramount to who I am today.

But I did that internship, and it just blew my mind because I was there and sitting.

I was an intern in the director's office and would sit, you know, within steps of Thelma Golden every day.

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