A square mixed-media collage in a light wooden frame, densely layered with magazine clippings, headlines, photographs, and bold red, white, blue, and rainbow colors. Images of Barack Obama, Clarence Clemons playing saxophone under stage lights, and Marilyn Monroe appear among phrases about power, race, prejudice, resilience, and finding one’s voice. Text references social change, LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, and national identity. A child’s handprint is subtly embedded in the background.

Through My Eyes by Michaela Meyerhoff is a mixed-media collage exploring identity, oppression, and resilience. In creating this piece, Meyerhoff selected particularly resonant images and text from a limited collection of magazines published this year available in her community. Disparate figures and phrases overlap in this piece, conveying the different systemic harms they evoke not as discrete, but literally intersectional. An advocate for the dignity of all people, Meyerhoff sees art as a powerful way to inspire change through reflection and discourse. Viewers are encouraged to explore their own interpretations of meaning through their own eyes.