Adam Zanolini
I am a multi-instrumentalist, arts organizer, and ethnomusicologist based in New England in Chicago. I am Deputy Director of the Smith College Museum of Art, former the Executive Director of Elastic Arts Foundation in Chicago, and former Associate Director of Arts for Art, presenter of the annual Vision Festival of avant-jazz in New York. I am a co-founder of the Participatory Music Coalition, co-founder of the Autophysiopsychic Milennium collective, and a current member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). I received a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2016. My highest ambition is to be a community musician: to cultivate and share knowledge through music in order to help heal, strengthen, and empower the Black community.
Music is more than entertainment, more than just a representation of a Culture. It’s a means to transmit knowledge.
