![]() ![]() He is also a lecturer and advisor, and enjoys immense respect in the world of art. Lumpkin sits on the Board of Trustees of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Board of Trustees of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, as well as on the Painting and Sculpture Committee at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Media and Performance Art Committee at the Museum of Modern Art. His art collecting exceeds the ten-year period covered by the Young, Gifted and Black book and accompanying traveling exhibition, but the focus on the voices of emerging Black artists and curators comes from explorations into his own history, heritage, identity - as well as an impressive dedication to advocacy, activism, and education through art. Indeed, Bernard Lumpkin's personal story inspired him to go on this journey, and become part of the remarkable lineage of Black patrons of Black art. In short: they are the art patrons and supporters we all admire and wish for. ![]() ![]() And not only that: the couple has been championing emerging artists of African descent through museum loans and institutional support as well. Boccuzzi been collecting these artworks for the past decade. Producing and publishing a book about more than one hundred artworks by a new generation of Black artists, in a moment of high racial tensions in America, seems timely and even convenient - hadn't Bernard I. ![]()
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