Xavier Roberts Xavier Roberts Xavier Roberts (born October 31, 1955 in Cleveland, Georgia) is an American artist and entrepreneur. He is best known for marketing the Cabbage Patch Kid dolls. At the age of five, Xavier Roberts' father died in a car accident, leaving his mother to raise him and his five siblings. Roberts then attended White County High School and then attended Truett McConnell Junior College where he was an award-winning art student. After meeting the "Doll Babies" artist named Martha Nelson Thomas at a craft fair, Roberts began reselling her products and eventually copying her designs of a quilted doll
David Roberts Art Foundation David Roberts Art Foundation David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF) is a non-profit centre for contemporary art in central London. DRAF produces art works, exhibitions, performances and events open free to the public. Over the last seven years, DRAF has collaborated with over 680 emerging and established artists and curators, including Phyllida Barlow, Bruce McLean, Danh Vo, Benoit Maire, Nina Beier and Sarah Lucas. Founded in 2007 by British collector David Roberts and directed by curator Vincent Honoré, DRAF originally occupied a gallery space on Great Titchfield Street in Fitzrovia. It moved in 2012 to its current headquarters in Mornington Crescent,