Casco Art Institute thanks Rosemarie Buikema as she steps down from her role as leader of the Graduate Gender Programme and the Gender, Diversity, and Global Justice platform. Find her extensive farewell note via the Utrecht University website. We would like to share her quote from it, which resonates close to our heart, on the role of arts in political change: “Political change requires more than knowledge, lobbying, and activism alone”, she says. “For structural transformation of cultural and social systems that breed inequality and exclusion, the arts have an important role to play”.