Powerful women
Category : General

Location: Not on view

This traveling exhibition showcases watercolors by multi-disciplinary artist John Sebelius and portraits by Pulitzer prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker. Working more than thirty years apart, both artists portray Black women who transformed the United States through their writing, activism, research, and other endeavors. Placed in conversation with Lanker’s concise and perfectly composed photographs, Sebelius’s colorful paintings convey an exuberant immediacy, demonstrating the continued relevancy of Lanker’s work from the 1980s.

 

 

∎ Available for tour through 2025:
-20 gelatin silver prints by Brian Lanker (framed size 24” x 25”) 
-20 watercolor on paper by John Sebelius (framed size 39.5” x 31.5”) 
∎ 8 to 12 week exhibition
∎ $3000, plus one-way shipping to outgoing destination

 

Image above: John Sebelius, Coretta Scott King, watercolor on paper
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