16 Ransom Everglades LOG SPRING 2026 Indeed, much of Freidin’s work, both as a pro bono lawyer and as Museum of Graffiti extraordinaire, is dedicated to promoting a more equal and equitable view of graffiti as an art form. “It’s not right,” she said, “that some artists are getting keys to the city, while others are getting locked in a cage with the keys thrown away.” Freidin, there’s no doubt, does it all. When not defending artists’ right to make art, she manages all three museumrelated businesses’ strategic partnerships, community art programming, largescale fine art sales, licensing and legal work. This means that, on any given day, she could be working with artists to design and license their art for museum merchandise, or working with partner Monster Energy to organize the free “Monster Monthly” program, which has in the past included book signings, artist talks, print releases and more. She could also be hard at work supporting the Private Gallery’s latest exhibition, like the current “Inner Child” show featuring Miami native and Cuban American contemporary artist Gabriela Noelle alongside a half dozen international graffiti artists. Locally aware curatorial work like that of the Private Gallery, Freidin said, is “something I really help with by being third-generation Miami.” Freidin grew up right next to La Brisa, enjoying a Coconut Grove childhood that had her at the footsteps of Ransom Everglades. That’s why her parents decided to enroll her in Ransom Everglades in the first Allison Freidin ’03 in her museum
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