EXHIBIT TO HIGHLIGHT DYLAN'S TIMES A-CHANGIN'

The growing political awareness of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s will be the focus of an exhibition opening next year at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "How Many Roads: Bob Dylan and His Changing Times" which opens 2/23, will also chronicle his meteoric ascent from obscurity to becoming the era's most revered songwriter.

Central to this exploration are influential figures that helped shape Dylan’s trajectory, including Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Theodore Bikel and Len Chandler. Included in the exhibition are never-before-displayed photographs and ephemera from the 1963 Newport Folk Festival and rare footage and photographs from the 1963 March on Washington and historic 1963 voter-registration drive in Greenwood, Mississippi.

“At the heart of the exhibit lies Dylan’s music, breathing life into the historical events that birthed these lyrical masterpieces,” said Dylan Center Senior Director of Archives and Exhibitions Mark Davidson. “Rare photographs, compelling film footage and archival materials converge to evoke the era's essence, where Dylan's compositions were inspired by the Cuban Missile Crisis, the looming threat of nuclear devastation and the tragic racially motivated deaths of Hattie Carroll, Medgar Evers and Emmett Till.”