The Corcoran School of Arts and Design, in partnership with For Freedoms and the National Gallery of Art, presents The Four Freedoms Photographs as a part of For Freedoms’ three-year residency in DC. Created by Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur, in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery in 2018, the Four Freedoms Photographs are reinterpretations of American artist Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings, representing the eponymous Four Freedoms coined by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1941 State of the Union Address — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. By framing artists, activists, community organizers, and friends within these iconic works, For Freedoms modernized American imagery and sparked civic engagement by declaring diversity an essential and undeniable component of freedom.