Rhonda Crowder, coordinator at literacy advocates Hough Reads, comes to moCa and invites participants to read aloud with our Gund Curatorial Fellow La Tanya Autry, and explore the texts that influenced Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom. Texts include the article from which the exhibition gets its name and excerpts from Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Stories of Social Upheaval. Rhonda Crowder is a member of the Greater Cleveland Association of Black Journalists, United Black Christians of Greater Cleveland, and a board member of The Friendly Inn Settlement House. She also authored the 2016 novel Riddles, is founder of Rhonda Crowder and Associates, and was also named Humanitarian of the Year 2020 by the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), Cleveland Chapter.