Lincoln Center's Visual Poem Tribute to John Lewis and C.T. Vivian

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has released a commissioned work of art which pays tribute to the legacies of civil rights leaders John Lewis and C.T. Vivian. As part of Lincoln Center’s current goal to commission art that responds to our current moment, including the COVID-19 pandemic and civil rights issues of our time, Baptism (of The Sharecropper's Son & The Boy From Boonville) is a three-part tribute poem written by award-winning poet and artist Carl Hancock Rux that has also been crafted into an 11-minute short abstract film, The Baptism, directed by MacArthur Fellowship-winning artist Carrie Mae Weems. Click here to read the poem and view the video component of this civil rights inspired art piece. 

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