Anita Davis

Anita Davis is a native Arkansan and lifelong collector who loves outsider art, Gladys Knight, dream work, and learning about the mysteries of life. Her varied life experience includes owning a mail-order catalog called Pure and Simple in the 1980s. She has a talent for finding valuables ("They're valuable to me!") in unexpected places and has led the revitalization of Little Rock's SoMa neighborhood in which ESSE Purse Museum & Store is located. What's Inside is an extension of her endeavor to...See more

Anita Davis is a native Arkansan and lifelong collector who loves outsider art, Gladys Knight, dream work, and learning about the mysteries of life. Her varied life experience includes owning a mail-order catalog called Pure and Simple in the 1980s. She has a talent for finding valuables ("They're valuable to me!") in unexpected places and has led the revitalization of Little Rock's SoMa neighborhood in which ESSE Purse Museum & Store is located. What's Inside is an extension of her endeavor to explore concepts of art, history, and the feminine at ESSE-the only purse museum in the United States and one of only three in the world. See less