Cultivist Conversations with CCH Pounder

25 Sep 2024 Cultivist Conversations with CCH Pounder

Guyanese-American actress CCH Pounder is celebrated for her award-winning roles on NCIS: New Orleans, The Shield, and James Cameron’s Avatar. Alongside her successful acting career, she is deeply committed to the arts as a collector, patron, and curator. In 1992, she and her late husband founded Musée Boribana, the first privately owned contemporary museum in Dakar, Senegal, which they generously donated to the nation in 2014.

A noted collector, she has amassed over 500 stunning works, focusing on Caribbean and African artists and the African Diaspora. Major artists featured include Kehinde Wiley, Patricia Renee Thomas, Ronald Jackson, Robert Pruitt, Greg Breda, Ebony G. Patterson, and Mickalene Thomas. Selections from her collection have been exhibited at Xavier University, Somerset House, and the National Portrait Gallery in London. Currently, works are featured in Double ID at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, on display until 20 October 2024. A new exhibition, Shared Vision: Portraits from The CCH Pounder-Koné Collection, recently opened at The African American Museum in Philadelphia and will run until March 2025.

Join us for a conversation with Pounder as she shares her inspiring journey and discusses the significance of art collecting in her life.