Lane Community College presents this year’s installment in its Martin Luther King Jr. Speaker Series with Titus Kaphar, who will speak on “Making Space for Diverse History”. The keynote speech (3:30-4:30 p.m.) will be followed by a reception from 5-6 p.m.

If art is a language that speaks, what is it saying? In statue form, Roosevelt rides a horse and boldly stares into the future; meanwhile, nameless African American and Indigenous people walk on foot beside him. Statues of confederate soldiers loom over our civic institutions—our libraries and schools and offices—without context or apology.

In this powerful talk, Titus Kaphar imagines a renewed, more nuanced engagement with American history: envisioning new spaces for marginalized or forgotten bodies to enter, and disrupt, the evolving fabric of our culture. Join Titus—one of the country’s most exciting young painters—on a revealing, intellectually nourishing tour of the issues most in need of amendment.