NICOLE SALIMBENE
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    • WE ARE WATER
    • ARTFORUM TAPESTRY SERIES
    • RECEIPT TAPESTRY SERIES
    • UNFOLDING
    • KNOWING YOUR WATER
    • MOVED BY WATER SERIES
    • AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CONSUMPTION: FIVE SCROLLS
    • DIVINE FEMININE SERIES
    • MAKEUP SERIES: TREMBLING
    • SCAPULAR SERIES
    • MENDING
    • STUDIES IN INVASIVENESS
    • COMMUNITY PROJECTS
    • ARCHIVE >
      • STONE TO STONE
      • PROTEST RECEIPTS
      • FIGURES IN CEMENT
      • BOX SERIES
      • FACTORY SHRINE
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 Intimate Commissions,
​an online project and artist gift exchange
​created by John Borstel and Catherine Mueller
Read more about Intimate Commissions on their blog: 
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interdisciplinaryness

Each artist invited to participate in this project received the following description:

THE PROJECT: Intimate Commissions
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“… for it is when art acts as an agent of transformation
that we may correctly speak of it as a gift.”
Lewis Hyde
 
What if going to an art event were more like a holy mass, a potlatch, a potluck family reunion, a Secret Santa exchange, or an 8-year-old’s birthday party in 1965?
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Everybody likes getting presents, right? And they say giving is even better.
 
IMAGINE THIS: You are asked to give a reckoning of yourself by answering three questions: How did you get your name? What are ten things you consider beautiful? What’s the story behind one item you carry in your pocket? The answers you share form a story of you, a lyrical dossier that travels out into the world to be picked up by another artist* who responds to this intimate commission by making you an ART PRESENT. At the same time you’ve received a commission and made a gift for a stranger based on their three-question profile. (From the curators’ national networks, 16 to 30 artists of varied disciplines will be engaged to participate.)

* Artist: A person who makes things out of love and/or passion.

Here are images of the gift I created: Holy Water


© 2022 Nicole Salimbene

  • Works
    • WE ARE WATER
    • ARTFORUM TAPESTRY SERIES
    • RECEIPT TAPESTRY SERIES
    • UNFOLDING
    • KNOWING YOUR WATER
    • MOVED BY WATER SERIES
    • AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CONSUMPTION: FIVE SCROLLS
    • DIVINE FEMININE SERIES
    • MAKEUP SERIES: TREMBLING
    • SCAPULAR SERIES
    • MENDING
    • STUDIES IN INVASIVENESS
    • COMMUNITY PROJECTS
    • ARCHIVE >
      • STONE TO STONE
      • PROTEST RECEIPTS
      • FIGURES IN CEMENT
      • BOX SERIES
      • FACTORY SHRINE
  • ABOUT
    • STATEMENT
    • BIO
    • CV
  • PRESS
  • NEWS
  • WORKSHOPS
  • CONTACT