Destination Crenshaw Senior Art and Exhibition Advisor V. Joy Simmons
I Don’t Have a Favorite Child
Joy Simmons is an art collector and senior art and exhibition advisor for Destination Crenshaw, an open-air public art corridor down Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles. She also serves as a commissioner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and on the board of the California African American Museum. Before participating in the Zócalo/Destination Crenshaw program “How Do You Grow a Rose From Concrete?,” she sat down in our green room to chat about her trip to Ghana, who inspires her, and that time James Baldwin came to her high …
