“Resilience” was a project that took place over two summers in Albuquerque, New Mexico with students at Washington Middle School and in the Barelas community. This mural focuses on the resiliency of indigenous plants local to the neighborhood in which it is located. All plants depicted are typically known as weeds, however they all hold traditional and medicinal properties known by locals to the area. Throughout this project, students learned the medicinal and herbal properties of these plants, taught by traditional herbalist Doña Maclovia Zamora. The central focus of this mural was understanding empowerment through response and action. Student apprentices learned empowerment through activation, by focusing on the philosophy that when one is empowered you are able to manifest that power in something else.