Tom Lloyd was born in 1929 in Jamaica, Queens, United States, where he spent majority of his childhood and started gained his love for art.
[5] A few months before the opening, Lloyd participated in the 1968 round-table discussion, The Black Artist in America: A Symposium, convened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and chaired by Romare Bearden.
[2] The publication as a whole was intended as a “counter-statement”[7] to Robert Doty’s catalog introduction of the Contemporary Black Artists in America exhibition held at the Whitney Museum in 1971.
Located in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Jamaica, the space served as a vital cultural hub hosting exhibitions, concerts, lectures and festivals as well as other community enrichment activities like dance and karate lessons.
[2] The Store Front Museum in New York, a cultural center that hosted exhibitions, concerts, classes, and lectures for the predominantly Black community of Jamaica, Queens, for more than a decade.