Adrianna Brusie
curriculum vitae, updated July 2026
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Candidate for Master of Social Work (M.S.W.)
2028
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Advanced Studio Residency
2025-2026
University of Pennsylvania
B.A., History of Art, Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology
Summa Cum Laude
Graduated May 2023
Honors: Benjamin Franklin Scholar, History of Art High Honors, Kelly Writers House Creative Ventures Prize
Research specialties: Latinx interdisciplinary studies; Latin American Art History and visual culture; Puerto Rican & Caribbean Diaspora; Postwar and contemporary art; Gender and sexuality studies; Postcolonial and critical race theory; Museum studies; Media Studies
Professional experience
President & Consultant, Retro Ade Astrology, Philadelphia, PA
2024-present
Skills: private counseling, workshops facilitation lecturing, curriculum development, Hellenistic & psychological astrology
Associate, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023-2025
Skills: exhibition management, book publishing and editing, digital marketing and communications, public relations, sales and museum acquisitions, collections management and research, event planning, copywriting, video production and editing, book design, graphic design
Editor In Chief, t-art, Philadelphia, PA
2020-2023
Skills: project management, grant writing, budget management, exhibition development, creative and editorial direction, writing, editing, curation, graphic design, website design, exhibition design
Curatorial Assistant, Ruth Fine, Independent Curator, Philadelphia, PA
2022-2023
Skills: exhibition planning, digital archives management, collections research, art handling
Public Relations Intern, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2022
Skills: press outreach, copywriting, copyediting
Student Board Member, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2021-2022
Skills: publications, event planning, digital marketing and communications strategies
Executive Director, Penn Closet, Philadelphia, PA
2019-2022
Skills: retail store management, POS systems, digital marketing, website and logo design, event planning
Exhibitions, projects, & commissions
2026
Philadelphia Stories 250: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Joy, exhibition at the Creative Philadelphia Art Gallery at City Hall, Philadelphia, PA, May - July 2026.
Student Works: From the 2025-2026 Academic Year, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, May - June 2026.
Eidolons, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, February - May 2026
2025
Postcards from the Edge: A Benefit for Visual AIDS, exhibition at Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY, January 2025.
2024
La Arcana de Gloria, visual art and performance commissioned for “A History of Hands: A Multimedia Mixtape on Philly Queer/Trans Community and Artistry, Memory and Insurgency, Pre Civil War to Present,” conceived and produced by Ricardo A. Bracho at The Rotunda, Philadelphia, PA, April 2024.
Contributing designer, I Am Not A Number, art and writing anthology published, edited, and compiled by the Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project.
2023
“Amaryllis R. Flowers: Instructions for Horizons,” Senior Honors Thesis, University of Pennsylvania History of Art. Faculty advisors: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw and Ricardo Bracho.
“Behind the Scenes of Rising Sun,” featured in “Reckoning & Repair: The Art That’s Touched Philadelphia,” podcast directed by Dr. Alissa Jordan at the Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania
2022
Curator and organizer, Resilience: Art & Design in Times of Uncertainty, exhibition at The Arts League, Philadelphia, PA, organized by t-art magazine, May 2022. Co-curated by Adrianna Brusie, Avery Givens Nardone, Caroline Jones, and Eleanor Shemtov.
Published writing
“Notes on Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria: Reading the Whitney Exhibition through Familial Memory, Trauma, and Grief,” t-art magazine / volume 3 (May 2023).
“An Introduction to Resilience: Art & Design in Times of Uncertainty” (exhibition essay), t-art magazine / volume 2 (May 2022).
“Fluxus Horoscopes,” ICA: Disorientation, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (April 2022)
“Transformations of the Invisible: Nicole Fleetwood’s Marking Time,” t-art magazine / volume 2 (May 2021).
Conferences, workshops, & talks
2026
Quarterly creative astrology workshops at STUMP Plants, Philadelphia, PA
2025
“Amor Fati,” lecture at FaceClock Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, August 2024
“Amor Fati: Carl Jung on Astrology,” lecture at FaceClock Gallery, November 2024
2023
“Amaryllis R. Flowers: Instructions for Horizons,” presentation at the Philadelphia-Area Undergraduate Art History Research Symposium, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, April 2023
“Reckoning and Repair: The Art That’s Touched Philadelphia,” online discussion, Art at Noon hosted by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, July 2023
Languages
English, Spanish