Black Heritage Gallery...

Robbie Lee, Curator

A native of Houston Texas, Robbie is a licensed art appraiser, certified by the American Society of Appraisers. Ms. Lee holds a Business Degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. It was while attending Fairleigh that she became enchanted by and committed to the perpetuation of the works of African American artists.

Realizing that Anglo-American art galleries tended to display the work of only a few Black artists, she open the Black Heritage Gallery on January 10, 1977. Over the years, Robbie has studied, collected and broadened her knowledge of art by visiting shows in Harlem, Newark, Atlanta, Bermuda and the West Indies and Los Angeles. African and European art collectors have come from around the world to visit this gallery dedicated to the perpetuation of the artistic expression of the black experience.

Robbie tours, exhibits and lectures on the works of gallery artists as a means of educating the African American community--and society in general--at schools, colleges and social organizations across America and around the world.

Robbie's goal is to get African and African American artists accepted and exhibited as a part of the American cultural norm.. Though her busiest time is during Black History Month, many organizations are now discovering and adding her exhibits to their programs for summer and fall festivals, Jazz month, generic cultural awareness activities and lately featuring the works of African American female artists during their March Women's Month activities.

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