Artists Willie Cole and Alison Saar, along with collectors Larry and Brenda Thompson, join us in celebration of the exhibition With Passion and Purpose: Gifts from the Collection of Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson. Over four decades, the Thompsons assembled an extraordinary collection of works by Black artists, many of whom they befriended along the way. Hear their insights about collecting the work of contemporary artists, from both the collectors’ and artists’ perspectives in this conversation moderated by Kanitra Fletcher, the National Gallery’s associate curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic Art, and Shelley Langdale, curator and head of modern and contemporary prints and drawings.