In collaboration with the National Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, the tennis star is raising money to renovate the property.
Tennis superstar Venus Williams has teamed up with conceptual artist Adam Pendleton to preserve the house where the late singer Nina Simone grew up.
The fundraising endeavor will be two-fold, and include both an auction of “exceptional works donated by internationally renowned contemporary artists” conducted by Sotheby’s, beginning online May 11 and closing May 22 — as well as a ticketed gala at Manhattan’s Pace Gallery on May 20. Simone, who was born Eunice Waymon in 1933, spent her childhood in the three-room clapboard house — attending church with her mother, a Methodist preacher.Nancy Pierce / National Trust for Historic PreservationNancy Pierce / National Trust for Historic PreservationNancy Pierce / National Trust for Historic PreservationA portrait of Simone.It was during this time that community members recognized Simone’s nascent talent and the then 6-year-old prodigy began taking private piano lessons.
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