The artists will appear in conjunction with the lecture by Douglas
Blackmon. The Wall Street journalist’s groundbreaking work on the
re-enslavement of blacks (1865-1944) influenced the artists’ recent
works.  Dixon is a native of Washington, D.C., who received his
B.F.A. degree from the Atlanta College of Art in 1992 and his M.F.A.
degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995.  In the
May 2005 issue of BusinessWeek magazine, he was featured as an
emerging interdisciplinary artist to start collecting.  Morris is
the Director of External Affairs at the Georgia Ports Authority in
Savannah, Ga. He studied art at The Sidwell Friends School (Washington,
D.C.) and Tulane University in New Orleans. His most recent exhibit,
“Slavery by Another Name,” took place at the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil
Rights Museum in Savannah on May 15, 2009. Exhibit is in the Great Hall.