The Clinton Presidential Library, the Clinton Foundation, and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts welcome Aston Gonzalez, Ph.D., for a discussion of his book, Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century.

In a conversation moderated by AMFA’s Director of Community Engagement, Chris Revelle, Gonzalez will detail how daguerreotypes, lithographs, cartes de visite, and steam printing presses enabled artists to advocate for social reform, including the Abolitionist movement. Gonzalez will highlight the work of understudied artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James Presley Ball, and Augustus Washington.

This event is one of two public programs being held in conjunction with the Arkansas Civic Education Institute, an annual week-long professional development opportunity for 4th-12th-grade teachers.

The program will be available on the Clinton Presidential Center YouTube channel the following day.

These programs are the first in the Clinton Presidential Center Commemorates America 250 — a series dedicated to exploring the history of the United States in the year leading up to the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026.

“The Art of the Abolitionist Movement” is presented in partnership with the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.