Kimberly Drew

Kimberly Drew (born 1990) is an art curator and the social media manager for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the creator of the popular Tumblr blog "Black Contemporary Art". Drew supplements the Tumblr with accounts on Facebook (2,702 friends as of July 2016), Twitter (25,800 followers), and Instagram (229,000 followers), to champion black artists and the cause of Black Lives Matter. 2Early life Drew grew up in Orange, New Jersey, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York City.Growing up, she was raised in a family of artists. In 2008, Drew graduated from the boarding school St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island. During her second year at Smith College, Drew had an internship at Studio Museum in Harlem with Thelma Golden, which influenced her later choice of concentration. She said the experience of working in a museum was a career path. In 2012, Drew graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in Art history and Africana studies, and a concentration in Museum Studies. 2Career In March 2011, Drew started the Tumblr blog called "Black Contemporary Art" while still in college. When she began "Black Contemporary Art," Drew would write posts for black artists who were featured on museum websites but not on Tumblr so that they "were part of a recorded history." As such, she aims to help "more marginalized people enter institutions, learn the rules, and shatter and restructure them."In 2012, she worked at Creative Time in New Yor