Taylor Spence (Ph.D. MFA, Artist and Independent Scholar) will delve into the world of utopian communities in the nineteenth century and explain how and why they were formed.  From free love to rethinking how labor practices and gender roles were discussed, these communities shaped the development of early America.

For more information on this topic, you may read Dr. Spence’s book, Grasping Democracy: The Settler Colonial Turn in Early National America or check out his website:  https://www.taylorwyoming.com/the-cowboy-flaneur-a-culture-blog