Photographer Sheila Pree Bright Puts Civil Rights Activists In Your Face In Downtown Atlanta

"For a year I've been listening to elders talk," Sheila Pree Bright said one recent Saturday morning at Dancing Goats coffee bar in Atlanta. I was meeting the nationally exhibited photographer to learn more about her public street art series 1960 Who, which launched last month. Moving her work out of museums and galleries to Atlanta's inner city streets, Bright plastered walls with monumental portraits of civil rights activists who are now in their 70s and 80s. The murals celebrate the grassroot...