Dreamers DreamingDreamers Dreaming, 1985 Offset Lithograph Edition of 100 23 x 30 in Collaborative Printer: Bob Franklin Jack Gerber's Dreamers Dreaming places us inside the logic of a dream itself where a single woman multiplies across the composition, appearing in three model like poses in the upper register before settling into a larger, recumbent form at the bottom of the print, resting beneath flowers arranged in a decorated vase. A dog sits nearby, its head

The synchronicity of these diametric oppositions may become easier to understand when you trace the New Orleans-born sculptor’s influences back to music

Poster made by Peter Paone for Brandywine Workshop and Archive

27 1/3 x 27 3/4 inches

with neither predominating

The Children of Middle Passage Series was created to memorializethe countless children and young people that perished during the Middle Passage of the trans-Atlantic slave trade whose names and identities have been erased

and assembled the still life that became the basis for his PrintLab work

is what lives behind the surface — individual

The resulting print is a diptych on Arches paper

the first encounter with Tierra Firme for many weary

below the earth

I asked myself that question late one evening as I looked at the sun setting behind the hills on the Bay of Portobelo on the Caribbean coast of Panama

and ideas that were drawn from African folklore