The quest for human rights and the search for personal fulfillment, as proposed in the 1776 American Declaration of Independence, provide the starting point for this international exhibition curated by Roger Manley (curator of AVAM's mega-popular inaugural exhibition "Tree of Life.") Works by the last surviving descendant of the Tsars of Russia, Iroquois Indians, French Revolutionaries, illegal immigrants, Algerian War veterans, Guantánamo Bay detainees, Holocaust survivors, incarcerated prisoners, African-American civil rights activists and Iraqi doctors are among the 80 visionary artists to be featured. Illustrator Renaldo Kuhler’s vast imaginary country of "Rocaterrania," Tilden Stone’s masterful "Furnitures of Secrets," and Duncan Laurie’s Purr Generator (a “happiness machine”) are among the many works that will never have been shown publicly before.