Brosseau Center for Learning: In Conversation with the 2025–26 KU Common Book
Exhibition Overview
Wyatt Haywood, curator
Suzanne Huffman, curator
Ellen Joo, curator
Luke Jordan, curator
Arial Kim, curator
Doug Bergstrom, curator
Susan Earle, curator
Sofía Galarza Liu, curator
Kevin Liu, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
Cara Nordengren, curator
Hana Rose North, curator
Liz Pfeiffer, curator
Sydney Pursel, curator
Rachel Straughn-Navarro, curator
Eli Troen, curator
Maggie Vaughn, curator
This installation draws inspiration from KU Reads: A Common Book Experience. The Common Book program represents a campus-wide initiative to engage students in a shared learning experience. This year’s book by John Green—"The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet”—has prompted the selection of this year’s Common Work of Art, a painting by Hollis Sigler on display in “Empowerment,” as well as this installation. For this conversation, Spencer staff members reviewed aspects of the human-centered planet inspired by artworks from the collection, modeled on the style of “The Anthropocene Reviewed.”
