Join us on Valentine’s Day, February 14, to learn more about Nicole Salimbene’s artistic practice relating to the lost art of the letter and how letters can be used for metaphysical transformation. Attendees will participate in a letter-art workshop inspired by the natural world and non-human animals.

The workshop is on February 14 in the Gillespie Gallery of the Art and Design building.

Time Slots:
10:30am - 12:30pm
2:30pm - 4:30pm
4:30pm - 5:15pm (accelerated workshop)

RSVP: https://go.gmu.edu/loveletters

About the Artist: Nicole Salimbene is one of the 22 woman artists in the Cast/Recast exhibition. Working at the intersection of poetics, psychology, environmentalism and contemplative practice, her art aims to provoke self-inquiry and dialogue regarding social issues.

About ‘Unfolding Wisdom’ by Nicole Salimbene: In the lost art of the letter, we lose the embodied gesture of unfolding something slowly. To stare and search, to wonder and wander across the fields either in maps or letters. To behold for a moment content that cannot be swiped away. The patience of waiting for a letter to arrive. The sharing of wisdom and presence germinating in the time and space where the possibility of connection is drawn apart and pulled together without immediacy. Perhaps it is nostalgia or metaphor or longing, but I want to hold and unfold and fold something. And then release it. Unfolding is an invitation to reflect on what is slowly being revealed in the folds of your life.