02/02/2023
Upcoming EcoArt WorkshopLove Letters to Nature Workshop
with Nicole Salimbene
Tuesday, February 14
On Valentine’s Day, February 14, Nicole Salimbene will lead a letter-art workshop inspired by the natural world that explores how letters can be used for metaphysical transformation. All supplies will be provided! Questions should be sent to [email protected].
The time slots being offered have changed slightly. Please see below for the updated time slots! We hope you can still participate, and apologize for any inconvenience this causes.
Time Slots:
10:30am - 12:30pm
2:30pm - 4:30pm
4:30pm - 5:15pm (accelerated workshop)
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.
Gillespie Gallery of Art
Art and Design Building
4515 Patriot Circle, Fairfax VA
Free and Open to the Public