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Shirley Kinsey, born in 1946 in Lake City, Florida, is a Los Angeles-based philanthropist, art collector, and former school teacher. She is well-known, along with her husband Bernard and son Khalil, as an owner of the Kinsey Collection, one of the largest private collections of African-American history and art in the world. After graduating from Florida A&M University in 1967 with a degree in English, Shirley and Bernard began collecting art and artifacts connected to their own Black history and culture. Their passion led them to collect objects that shared their heritage, arts, and culture, resulting in The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection. “The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey – Where Art and History Intersect” has been on national tour to six cities and opened at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, on October 12, 2010. The collection was selected by the Florida Department of Education as the curriculum to teach African American studies to 3.6 million children statewide. |
