Artist and curator Laurel Tucker Duplessis will display and sell her art at the home of Vineyard Haven resident Carol White, 61 Pine street on August 18, from 3 to 5 p.m.

Laurel Tucker Duplessis was the curator of the art and artifacts division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York city, until her retirement in March 1996. She is also an artist whose primary medium is printmaking.

Laurel was born and raised in New York city and attended public schools there. She earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Massachusetts College of Arts and holds a masters in museum and archival administration from Hampton University.

Laurel wrote a booklet titled Basic Ideas for Collecting African-American Art while she was recovering from a heart transplant on Easter Sunday in 2006. She uses her art as a vehicle to raise money for many causes, most recently for transplant patients’ anti-rejection medication through her foundation, Art From the Heart. She is a positive role model for transplant patients in need of hope and encouragement.