[1] Rashida Bumbray began her career as a curatorial assistant and exhibition coordinator at Studio Museum in Harlem (2001-2006), where she co-founded the ongoing lobby sound installation StudioSound and Hoofers’ House, a monthly jam session for tap dancers which is now called Shim Sham.
[6] The ring shout is a tradition that was developed during slavery in America as an attempt to blend African spirituality with Baptist and Methodist sects of Christianity who censured the Africana dance and drum rituals.
In the dance, 12 dancers move in clockwise circles with steady rhythm, singing call-and-response patterns to chants and catchphrases in a manner that almost disguises the remnants of African traditions.
[2] Rashida Bumbray's guest curatorial work entitled, Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, was organized through Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center as a walkable month-long art exhibition.
"[11] The exhibitions focus on local participation was intended to celebrate the neighborhood and its existing members rather than use art as a way to draw the general public toward a community, thus making it desirable to new residents, instead of addressing contemporary realities.