05/28/2026
Many of the works in this exhibition, Spectrum of Resilience, reflect on the practice of art making can provide a space for healing. In this image Jazlyee shares her experience being in the hospital due to a lupus flare up. Her full gallery talk about her work is available through the You Tube link in website .edu/artmuseum. Sabree says, "I was in the hospital last year for quite a bit. Chronic illnesses, the generational traumas, the history is something that I explore a lot in my research as well is the relationship between chronic illness and environmental justice. What I found is that when you experience years and decades and centuries of trauma, it actually lives within your DNA. And so in the fabric of my DNA is the trait that carries lupus. All of the things I discovered about lupus is that it is a disease that largely impacts African diasporic women across the world. Especially the Western world. Thinking through that and pairing that with the history, thinking about how very literally down to our DNA, these oppressive forces are a constant and current threat to our survival. So in this piece, what was coming to me in this pose is there's so much resilience. That's what I had to do every day in the hospital. I was there for five days. Every day I woke up, I put my lipstick on. I did my eyeliner so that was the way that I felt that I survived. That's the best I could in that situation."
