Sheila Pree Bright is a photographer and activist-artist who continues to express herself through the visual experience. She makes engaging photographs and creates provocative installations while creating a series of critical images of what it means to be an American.

For Pree Bright her creativity is part of a collaborative process. She contextualizes the voices of young protesters by weaving their words and faces into her portraits. She brings the same passion to her documentation of today’s social protest movements from Atlanta, Baltimore, and Ferguson to Washington, DC as did her predecessors who made photographs in the 1960s civil rights protests for equal rights.

From the right to free speech to the desire to have a sound education to a right to fair housing opportunities, she champions the right of all Americans to a full participation in the American democratic process. It is encouraging to see the work of Pree Bright connect photographs to this memory, hence the title of her series, 1960Now!

Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on display until August 13.