January is the month when Americans remember the life and work of Martin Luther King. I recently aquired this week's featured image of the civil rights leader from Mississippi Outsider Artist Carl Dixon for a church exhibition with artworks from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection on the theme, Voices in the Wilderness: Prophets Old and New in Contemporary Sacred Art. This mixed media piece on carved wood panel was inspired by a famous photograph of King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 28, 1963, when he shared his dream of a compassionate, interracial America with a crowd of some 250,000 supporters gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Some civil rights activists by the microphones have on the iconic white cap worn by Mahatma Gandhi to show their support for his philosophy of non-violent resistance. The King portrait joins a wide selection of other carved wood works on the Carl Dixon biosketch page in the Sacred Artists section. (John Kohan)