Adelaide was born in Ohio and raised in Georgia by way of West Virginia. She studied international affairs at the University of Georgia completing terms for the study of Italian in Milan, IT and the study of politics at the University of Oxford. She began working in the arts when she took a position as associate curator at the Art Museum of Chianciano with the purpose of becoming fluent in Italian.  Since then Adelaide has worked in galleries as a residential art consultant, in commercial art consulting for an artwork publishing house, and as a fine artist. Her work explores the balance between organic freedom and synthetic constraint.