THE LAB MAGAZINE December 2021

COVER STORY

SHERRI ROBERTS LUMPKIN

RAG BABY EXCHANGE AND THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION

Lab Resident Sherri Roberts Lumpkin Is The First Artist In The Phillips Collection Partnership.

The Lab has partnered with The Phillips Collection to provide yet another outlet to display the creative abilities of The Lab’s 30 enterprises with a passion for design and innovation.

Bringing the Noise Bringing the Ragbaby Funk

Lumpkin’s desire to “bring out the inner beauty and selfworth” in others led her to develop the Ragbaby Exchange (RBE), a non-profit organization and the Your Inner Doll Workshop in 2008.

The Ragbaby Exchange (RBE) is a nonprofit organization that uses a therapeutic approach to inspire participants to embrace self-love with self-affirmation.

Participants create a doll in their image from their soul outward, releasing negative self-talk and replacing it with positive affirmation and love notes.

Both media and film often depict Black and Brown people negatively, which can contribute to their feelings of unworthiness and lack of self-love. RBE is committed to counteracting the impact caused by exposure to such negative and limiting media narratives.