Museum of Resistance and Resilience

Parting Thoughts

It is not necessarily the space or the organization that enables Abigail to continue illuminating underrepresented communities and creating spaces for them – ART/EMIS is merely part of her story of resistance and resilience at the moment. Since art is inherently a form of protest, her journey is not stopping post-graduation, instead she will be carrying her desire to take action anywhere she goes – as long as she is willing to create art, she will create conversations that normalize differences, thus resisting against the safety that lies with sameness and promoting a love ethic within any community her art reaches. In the same way that Abigail ended our conversation, I will leave you with the same sentiment, “I am in love with art, and if I can leave behind one thing, it would be for others to see its beauty through my eyes”.

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