Presenter:  Joey Orr, Andrew W. Mellon Curator for Research, Spencer Museum of Art 

Description:  The Spencer Museum of Art has commissioned artist Fahamu Pecou to create KU’s 2023-2024 Common Work of Art to be in conversation with the Common Book, Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The Museum’s curator for research, Joey Orr, will give some insight into the work as well as the exhibition context, Black Writing, which will be open to the public during fall 2023 and is a collaboration with KU’s History of Black Writing as they celebrate their 40th anniversary.