Time For A Winfred Rembert Museum?

Winfred Rembert was a fixture in Newhallville for many years, and his fame as an artist had spread around the nation, and across the world for many years as well.
Those of us who knew him, and loved him and his art and his inspiring story, and who encouraged and supported him for years, attended his talks and exhibitions at Yale, the New Haven Museum, and local galleries, and viewed his famed documentary, often wondered why the city of New Haven and many local civic, fraternal and religious organizations never formally honored Mr. Rembert when he was alive?
The Pulitzer Prize is a tremendous honor for Mr. Rembert and his entire family. It elevates his name and his legacy to a level that his family and friends always knew he was worthy long ago.
Mr. Rembert loved art and kids. The best way to honor him is to establish a scholarship fund or foundation in his name to encourage young people interested in art to pursue it as a career. Another way to honor Mr. Rembert is for everyone to buy a copy of his book CHASING ME TO MY GRAVE for themselves, give copies to every middle and high school graduate in this city and beyond, donate copies to each school library so multitudes of kids can learn his triumphant American story and be inspired by it.

Agreed! Something needs to be done to showcase, permanently, in New Haven, the amazing art and life story of Mr. Rembert.

He was awesome and I deeply admired his work. But a properly designed and maintained and staffed fine arts museum is a very expensive venture. I think that raised money would be better spent on STEAM scholarships for African American college students. I like those that are modeled as a financial assist for those who encounter a tough final year because it rewards perseverance of someone nearly at the finish line.
That being said I do think it would be appropriate to memorialize Mr Remberts work In a cool way. Could YAG give over one gallery space for an African American art biennale that pivots around a work or two of Rembert?

Thanks to New Haven Independent's write-up a month ago, I learned about Winfred Rembert. Then I was lucky enough to get his book "Chasing Me to My Grave."
Talk about a New Haven treasure who needs to be honored big-time, he is the one. My words cannot begin to capture the power of his art, and of his life. People need to see it. Let's make it happen, New Haven.

Let’s not forget that Mr. Rembert’s son, Michell Rembert, is carrying on his father’s artistic tradition in his fathers medium with his fathers tools, with art speaking to his own experience growing up as a young black man in these times. I hear he has an exhibit coming up at art space soon. And I think he should be included in any discussions of his father’s legacy and consulted on any plans for a memorial or museum.

The problem with museums is that they have to have university endowments to take care of them, or patrons and fundraising to fund their ongoing care, and public visitors willing to pay entry fees to see their works to fund staffing, repairs, maintenance and other ongoing expenses. We couldn’t even keep the Irish Hunger museum in Hamden due to lack of financial support.
I’d much rather deserving arts students from disadvantaged populations in the city get scholarships in his name, and a wall or a wing dedicated to his life’s work in the Yale Art Gallery or even better, in the Q House or the New Haven Museum, where they have ongoing financial support to preserve his artwork and to staff and maintain their buildings to properly care for and show his work.
And, yes, absolutely his family should have a say in what memorial should represent this truly great artist.

If a museum is too expensive, then who has space to offer to memorialize this gifted man.
And where is his poster on a wall to honor him?