Biography
Kayla-Marie Golden is a recent Spelman College graduate from Charlotte, NC, who works at the intersection of Africana studies, fashion history, and the study of visual and material culture. Kayla will continue her academic journey as an inaugural member of Tulane’s Crossroads Cohort, pursuing a Master of Arts in Africana Studies and Art History. After completing her studies at Tulane, she plans to work as a museum curator organizing exhibitions highlighting the work of Black fashion designers and advocating for art museums to collect it and other objects related to African American dress history.
In addition to earning a Bachelor of Arts in Art History with minors in Writing and Curatorial Studies at Spelman, Kayla received multiple scholarships and honors, including the Art History Scholarship, the Dovey Johnson Roundtree Scholarship, and membership in the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society.
Kayla has actively engaged with the art world through immersive travel, internships, and academic programs. She participated in the Bard Graduate Center’s intensive course Re-Dress and Re-Form: Innovations in the History of Fashion and Design in New York and traveled to Paris for NYU’s Black Portraitures Conference as part of the AUC Art Collective’s “Art Insider” program. Her professional experience includes curatorial research at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she assisted with exhibition planning and collection development, and art appraisal work at the Children’s Defense Fund where she cataloged over 300 pieces of African art. Kayla also served as a student curator for the AUC Art Collective exhibition at the Robert Woodruff Library and founded Artistically Her, a blog highlighting women in the arts.