For the spring issue of the Maine Arts Journal, Professor of Art Véronique Plesch wrote the introduction for the issue’s theme, “In Times Like These.” She also wrote an essay for her “Art Historical Musings” column titled “Bearing Witness,” in which she explains that as she reflects on the issue’s theme, “some of the works of art I regularly engage with in my classes take on heightened resonance.”  Because of her scholarship on graffiti, Plesch was commissioned to write a reflection on a body of activist street art. Her piece is titled “Activist Cuckoo Nests.”