More than 50 works by contemporary artists of African descent go on view Friday, Oct. 23, at the Lowe Art Museum on the University of Miami campus.

The traveling exhibition Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art features pieces by established names like Kara Walker, David Hammons and Glenn Ligon. Younger artists in the show include Jordan Casteel and Paul Mpagi Sepuya. The exhibition runs through April 24, 2027, a stretch that covers Miami's winter art-fair season, according to the Gables Gazette.

An opening reception takes place Thursday, Oct. 22, from 7 to 9 p.m. The university’s event listing gives a $15 admission price for the reception. Regular museum admission is free, and advance reservations are highly recommended.

The collection belongs to Bernard I. Lumpkin, a former MTV executive, and Carmine D. Boccuzzi. The couple had assembled nearly 500 works by 2022, many by emerging artists, with a focus on bringing greater attention to artists whose work has not always received broad institutional recognition.

"A collection should be a story. It should be an argument," Lumpkin told Philadelphia public radio station WHYY in 2022, when the exhibition visited Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

Antwaun Sargent, a director at Gagosian, co-curated the show with Matt Wycoff. Sargent also edited the companion book Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists (2020).

The works span painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media. Materials include coffee, staples, embroidery floss and basketball cards alongside oil and acrylic paint. One piece featured in promotional materials, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones's Blue Dancer (2017), shows an indigo-blue figure twisting among vivid forms. The London-born artist, whose family is Nigerian, draws on West African traditions and European painting influences.

Lumpkin and the curators describe a dialogue between generations in the show. Established artists like Lorna Simpson, Henry Taylor and Nari Ward appear alongside younger voices such as Jonathan Lyndon Chase, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Vaughn Spann.

The show takes its name from To Be Young, Gifted and Black, the Nina Simone song created with lyricist Weldon Irvine in memory of playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

Young, Gifted and Black began touring in 2019 and has stopped at university museums across the country, according to the exhibition’s touring schedule. Previous venues include Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois Chicago and the University of Denver. The Coral Gables presentation follows the Lowe's recent exhibition on Afro-Cuban art, El Pasado Mío/My Own Past, which closed Sept. 12.

The Lowe Art Museum is at 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Gables Gazette reports that a free guided tour is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 21, from 11 a.m. to noon, with registration required. Check the museum’s events calendar for tour updates.