Zhou Brothers Art Gallery

Allan Gray is a former Lee’s Summit city councilman and a longtime arts advocate in Kansas City.

He is a graduate of Paseo High School and then went away to Morehouse College, returning to Kansas City in 1976 with a political science degree.

He is active in the community, involved in community service organizations including the Black Economic Union, the Missouri Arts Council and Cultural Trust, and the Missouri Council on Economic Education. He is the founder of the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey.

Now, he serves as a partner at Zhou Brothers Art Center in Kansas City, the new $20-plus million art center in the historic 18^th and Vine district.