Most Daring Dream: Photographs by Robert Houston

Photographs by Robert Houston of Resurrection City and the Poor People's Campaign, 1968

Exhibit | On view through Friday, March 12
Architecture Building, Linear Gallery

Symposium | Wednesday, March 10, 6:15pm
Architecture Building, Auditorium

Symposium Panelists

Aaron Bryant, Americanist and Curator, James E. Lewis Museum of Art

Robert Houston, Photographer

Tunney Lee, Architect of Resurrection City, Professor Emeritus, MIT

Ken Jadin, Architect of Resurrection City, Professor Emeritus, UM and Howard University

Ralph Bennett, Professor Emeritus, UM

Symposium Moderators

Christine Arnold, Linear Gallery Student Coordinator
Professor Ronit Eisenbach

On assignment for Life Magazine, Robert Houston arrived in Washington, DC to photograph the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. With his camera and artistic instinct, Houston captured a sample of America's poor living in a constructed tent city on the National Mall. The result was a collection of photographs that are compassionate in their insight and visual commentary.

Capturing the dignity of individual humanities, Houston's images differ from portraits of protest and collective struggle. He reveals nobility in places where some assume it cannot exist and portrays a collective vision through the lives of individuals.

Most Daring Dream, an exhibition that features more than 20 images captured by the photographer, is currently on view in the Linear Gallery. These photographs will serve as a catalyst for a symposium with Robert Houston. A former UM Architecture Professor John Wiebenson worked with a group of students on the construction of Resurrection City. Students and faculty from across the university concerned with poverty and civil rights in America are encouraged to attend and join the discussion.

Credits
Christine Arnold, Linear Gallery Student Coordinator
Ronit Eisenbach, Galleries Faculty Chair
Exhibit on loan from the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University
Curated by Aaron Bryant, Exhibitions Curator at the Lewis Museum and doctoral student in American Studies at the University of Maryland

Most Daring Dream was organized by Morgan State University with support from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Maryland Humanities Council's "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Remembrance and Reconciliation," a special initiative funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.