" That said, Rebecca enlisted the expertise of art curator AJ Girard who engineered a collection based off of the beauty of growing up Black. “I wanted to respect his new standing in life and find art and artist that translated various ways of growing up Black,” he says. “The joy, the angst and the power of finding yourself in culture,” he says. With event planner Taylor Ryn at the helm of making these ideas come to life, The Art Of Forty was born."