Students and faculty from HBCUs participated in the inaugural Curation, Leadership, Artistry and Practice Program designed to help increase diversity in the art leadership field. This story captures their reflections on the experience. Pictured: Curator Mitra Abbaspour (foreground right) and I discussed the challenging yet rewarding responsibility of shaping art experiences that build community. Exhibitions cannot tell all of our stories at one time. Abbaspour’s exhibition “The Figure Abstracted” examines how artists’ abstract explorations of the human body reveal places of intersection and shared experiences. It is where these communal points occur synergy and inclusion are fostered. Caption by Anne Collins Smith, left foreground, curator of collections, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art