I Dream a World: Selections from Brian Lanker's Portraits of Remarkable Black Women

Featuring portraits by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker, from his 1989 book “I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America,” this exhibition presents more than 25 photographs of remarkable Black women. 

Installed in two parts, the exhibition will feature likenesses of women who have made a difference across the disciplines of the arts, activism, literature and politics. Sitters in the first installation will include Maya Angelou, Septima Poinsette Clark, Lena Horne, Barbara Jordan, Rosa Parks, Leontyne Price, Wilma Rudolph, and Alice Walker. Sitters featured in the second part will include Althea Gibson, Odetta, Cicely Tyson, and Oprah Winfrey. 

Part I of “I Dream a World: Selections from Brian Lanker's Portraits of Remarkable Black Women” will be on view July 8, 2022, through Jan. 29, 2023, and Part II will be on view Feb. 10, 2023, through Sept. 10, 2023. 

Credit: Overview from museum website