Sherry Washington is founder of Sherry Washington Gallery. Ms. Washington, the youngest of 15 children born to the late William Taft Washington and Virginia Hall Washington, was born and raised in Detroit and matriculated through the Detroit Public School system.   At the age of 16, she began her freshman year at the University of Michigan from which was graduated in 1977 with honors and a degree in General Studies.

Ms. Washington for several years served the City of Detroit as an administrator in the Office of Contract Compliance.   During this same period she discovered her love of and appreciation for fine art and an uncanny acumen for understanding both art and the world of art.   With panache, a committed devotion and a seriousness that would serve her well, Ms. Washington ventured into the world of art as a business.   In its fledging days, when Ms. Washington still worked her "day job," was still raising her son and was attempting to establish a Gallery of which Detroit could be proud, the Gallery drew some of the world's most celebrated artists, including artists whose works were frequently commissioned or procured by the world's finest museums.   Many of these artists were drawn to the owner's dedication to art, to her professionalism, and to her commitment to the artists whom the eponymous gallery represented.    

Ms. Washington is community-minded and believes in being where needed and when.   She gives countless hours to returning Detroit to its status as a world class city.   She has returned to her alma mater in Detroit to encourage the many high school students, generations behind her. Ms. Washington has often expressed her love for the City, and mostly by her actions. She sits on the boards of several Detroit-based institutions including:

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Sherry Washington is the mother of Khalid R. W. Haywood, a graduate of the University of Michigan, who resides and works in New York.