For Katie Knight, an artist and museum curator in Montana, a journey to turn hateful speech into uplifting art started with a stash of 4,000 books.
The result — an emotionally stirring art exhibit, “Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate” — has been touring the country for 10 years and makes a stop, Friday through Sept. 3, at Ogden Union Station.
Knight was education curator at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Mont., when an anti-bigotry group, the Montana Human Rights Network, came into possession of the books, donated by a man who had defected from a local white-supremacy group.