Regional Assembly: Resisting Summary
‘Any complete work of art resists summary,’ remarks Teju Cole, the Nigerian / American author and photographer, on a 2021 episode of the podcast Between the Covers. The sentiment stirs up beautiful currents of resistant possibility. It is okay not to fit with ease into categories, briefs, themes and definitions. In fact, it is important not to. And as I sit, trying to condense four years of coordinating Regional Assembly into 2000 words, I wonder what it means for an art program to also resist summary. And I hope, in many ways, that is exactly what it does.