Portraits Installed, Great Hall Gallery, Mechanics Hall February, 2024

Brenda Zlamany of Brooklyn, NY commissioned to paint Worcester business owners and abolitionists William Brown and Martha Ann Tulip Lewis (Brown); Manu Saluja of Long Island, NY commissioned to depict former slave, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth; and Imo Nse Imeh of Holyoke, MA has been commissioned to depict former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Additional information about the Mechanics Hall portraits project can be found at https://mechanicshall.org/portraits-project/.