Gabby Hurd - General museum visit and reflection (2 pts)

 Cultural Expansion: General museum visit and reflection (2 pts) 

September 24, 2025 

I took a trip to Spelman’s museum and the Nancy Elizabeth Prophet exhibit. There were a lot of cool works there, but my favorite was a photo of a plaster model. Not a photo of an actual statue or even the model itself, but a photo of a plaster model Prophet planned to “execut[e] in marble.” The-statue-that-is-not-actually-a-statue is of a woman in a seemingly simple dress with a braid hanging over her shoulder and her hands gracefully clasped at her waist. It seems she’s looking down and almost leaning towards something. I think I’m a fan of the piece because she seems like a quiet, thoughtful woman, someone elegant and pensive. She has the presence that I myself seek to exude and embody. But she also strikes me as the embodiment of the Black interior we’ve been learning about in Dr. Edwards’ English class: a person whose humanity may be ignored in a loud and antiblack world, but who takes the time to reaffirm it in the quiet.

Gabrielle Hurd

 

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