An avid art lover, J LeShaé began collecting art in 2003 during her undergraduate years at Clark Atlanta University.  Upon her return to Dallas in 2012, she witnessed an underappreciation of local culture that inspired her to prioritize acquiring works by Dallas’ Black/BIPOC artists.  While the collection is not exclusively Dallas-based, it is predominantly, and features a growing number of visual arts, books, records, films, clothing and wares by Dallas’s own.