A Gift of History: African Art Exhibit Open House at Uplifting Mansion

Hey everyone, it’s Kim Shine from the HYFIN team – doing something a little different. I’m hoping on a story!

One of HYFIN’s freelancers, Joy Boyd, visited the Uplifting Mansion in Milwaukee to cover the open house of Nkenge’s gallery, a fantastic showing of nearly 100 pieces of historic African artifacts. The owner is Kenge Adams, a proud woman of African American decent who’s also a former IT project manager turned entrepreneur. Being a collector wasn’t exactly part of her plan; that is until leaders at St. Augustine Preparatory Academy reached out. They’d purchased the old Cardinal Stritch University campus and found the pieces there. 

If you haven’t already, you can read Joy’s write-up on the open house and the Uplifting Mansion, or you can keep listening for my interview with Kenge about her mission to now share these invaluable pieces with others and how she’s using AI technology to connect to past and the present.

Read Joy’s article on HYFIN.org 
Learn more about Nkenge’s Gallery: https://www.nkengegallery.com/
Learn more about the Uplifting Mansion: https://www.upliftingmansion.com/ 

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