In this special episode, Detroit-based art collector and juvenile court referee Leslie Graves invites us into a collecting practice that began as refuge and grew into something far more intentional. For Graves, surrounding herself with art has never been purely aesthetic, it serves as an act of preservation, a record of selfhood, and a quiet form of advocacy for the artists and communities institutions have overlooked. We explore what collecting unlocks beyond the walls of a courtroom, how the relationship between collector and artist carries its own kind of responsibility, and what a life’s worth of acquired work says about the person who chose it.

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