"I also want little girls to go to museums to feel proud of themselves. When I was growing up, I had really Afro hair... but I make sculptures like that because I want things to be relatable." ...

While Perez uses hair to create arts, their colleague, Jongeun Gina Lee, another artist at the show, prefers more solid media: clay, glass, glaze, fabric, thread, and metals such as lead and alloys ...