Annemarie Cabrera is a Dominican-American artist working with paper, fabric, and photographic archives to reconstruct the domestic spaces that shape identity and belonging. Cabrera is currently pursuing her BFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design (2022–2026).  She is exploring themes of community, unity, and the rebuilding of past and present into a shared place. At the center of her practice is the question, Where is the unity we once had? Reflecting on her family’s migration she explores how memory and culture shape stewardship, belonging, and care within these spaces. 

Repetition, whether through color, pattern, behavior, and tradition, is integral to her practice. By overwhelming the eye with bright colors and layered materials,  gathered from intergenerational conversations and family images. She seeks to share the intensity of preservation, the effort to hold on to what is fragile and fleeting. Through labor-intensive making and acts of repair, she investigates what becomes visible, what slips away, and how unity can be rebuilt across the distances created by migration.