WHERE BLACK BOYS DREAM

Presented by Heart Too Art

May 23, 2026 · Atlanta, Georgia

What does a Black boy dare to dream?

Not what the world tells him to dream. Not what statistics say is likely. Not what systems have been designed to allow. But what he dares — in the quiet of his imagination, in the strokes of a paintbrush, in the way his eyes light up when he sees something that looks like possibility.

Where Black Boys Dream was born from that question.

Angela Robinson, founder of Heart Too Art, created this event as both a celebration and a statement. As a mother watching her own son — a talented, emerging Black male artist — struggle to find spaces where his work could be seen, valued, and celebrated, she understood something that statistics will never capture: the dreams of Black boys are real, they are beautiful, and they deserve a stage.

Where Black Boys Dream is an art show and fundraiser taking place May 23, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. The event brings together emerging Black male artists to showcase and sell original work inspired by the theme of Black boyhood, ambition, imagination, and possibility. Alongside the art, guests will experience fashion-forward Black-owned vendors, live music, a DJ, food, and a community of people who show up intentionally for Black creativity and Black culture.

But this event is about more than one day in May.

Heart Too Art is a community-based arts education nonprofit dedicated to providing homeschooled teens — girls and boys ages 10–16 — with meaningful access to artistic instruction, creative exploration, and peer connection, regardless of their family's financial circumstances. Every dollar raised through Where Black Boys Dream goes directly toward sustaining and expanding Heart Too Art's programs so that more young people in Atlanta can discover their creative voice.

Where Black Boys Dream exists because representation matters. Because when a young Black boy walks into a room filled with art made by men who look like him — men who dared to dream and built something from that dream — something shifts in him. A door opens. A ceiling lifts. A future that felt impossible starts to feel like his.

This is what Heart Too Art is building. One event, one artist, one young person at a time.

We invite you to be part of it.

— Angela Robinson

Founder, Heart Too Art