ArtTable’s 2023 Annual Benefit in Los Angeles
ArtTable’s 2023 Los Angeles Annual Benefit and Award Ceremony took place on February 15, 2023 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, honoring philanthropist and collector Shirley Pooler Kinsey with the Distinguished Service in the Visual Arts Award. The evening brought together ArtTable members and supporters dedicated to advancing the leadership of women and nonbinary leadership in the visual arts.
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all who attended and contributed to the event’s success. We are grateful to our Benefit Co-Chairs Haili Francis, Bernard Kinsey, Khalil Kinsey, Frieze‘s partnership, and all of our host committee members.
There is still time to give! Please consider making a fully tax-deductible contribution.
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2023 LA Benefit Co-Chairs
Haili Francis,
2023 LA Benefit Sponsors & Supporters
Alice Riot
Amanda Gordon
Andrea Gyorody
Andrew Samuels
Anne Burford Johnson
Barbara Tober
Billie Rae Vinson
Bishop Charles Blake, Sr.
Charles Floyd Johnson
Claudia Worthington Hess
Courtney Maier Burbela
Darrell Miller
Daniel Temkin
Diana O’Gilvie
Donna Britt
Edward Parks
Felice Axelrod
Greg & Kathy Outcalt
Gena & MatthewKnowles
Haili Francis
Hannah Gottlieb-Graham Holly Jerger
Jason Witt
Julie A. Armistead
Kelly Groehler
Kevin Merida
Katherine Chan
Kathy Wong
Lady DeAndra Blake
Lady Mae Blake
Linda Poole Maggard
Marla B. Koosed
Melissa Payne
Nancy Cornelia Adams
Noriko Fujinami
Pastor Charles Blake II
Phoebe Beasley
Rachel Guettler
Roberta Jenkins
Sandra D. Jackson-Dumont
Sharon Goodman Squires
Suzy R. Delvalle
Travis Owens
Valerie Cassel Oliver
Wendy Garen
About the Honorees
Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Awardee
Shirley Pooler Kinsey is a Los Angeles-based philanthropist, art collector, and former school teacher known, along with husband Bernard and son Khalil, as the owner of Kinsey Collection, one of the largest private collections of African-American history and art in the world.
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Shirley and Bernard began collecting art as a way of documenting their travels. Realizing they knew little of their own history and culture, the couple began collecting African-American art, literature and manuscripts eventually amassing one of the largest private collections in the world.Their collecting expanded following the birth of their son Khalil as a way of documenting where he came from outside of narratives focused on slavery. Pieces from their collection has toured extensively across the United States since 2006. The collection was exhibited internationally for the first time in 2016 in Hong Kong. Khalil Kinsey works closely with his parents having served as chief operating officer and curator of collection and as vice president of the Bernard and Shirley Kinsey Foundation. The Kinsey family and their collection were featured on Episode 26 of the podcast This Is Love in 2020.