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The SCAD Museum of Art presents an exhibition centered on the Frederick Douglass Family Archive from the collection of Walter and Linda Evans. This historic register of the Douglass family鈥檚 manuscripts, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs are displayed in dialogue with artworks by contemporary artists whose work reflects the aesthetic and political values espoused by this revolutionary leader.

For Douglass (1818-1895), an individual who was born into slavery and went on to become one of the world's most-renowned social justice campaigners, the right to the imagination was the right to life. In his work as an orator, author, and fierce intellectual, the abolitionist believed that not only words, but works of art, were tools in the path for freedom. As a prolific creator and collector of autobiographies, essays, diaries, poems, photographs, paintings, drawings, and sculptures 鈥� many of which now reside in the Walter and Linda Evans Collection and are included in this exhibition 鈥� Douglass ultimately believed in art as a means to individual and collective liberation.

Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom is a dynamic exhibition that addresses critical subjects that shaped the life鈥檚 work of Douglass and continue to be at the forefront of today鈥檚 sociopolitical discourse. This project makes visible the historic narrative of the Douglasses and their unwavering commitment to transatlantic abolitionism and radical reform, not only for African Americans but for society as a whole. Additionally, this exhibition offers an expanded definition of Douglass, as it considers him not only as a key figure for civil rights but also an advocate for women鈥檚 suffrage, one of the first proponents of photographic theory and, perhaps most distinctively, as a family man.