I am Grateful for You” Project with Anne Labovitz

Moderator: Laura Morrison

Join us for a concluding program reflecting on the “I am Grateful for You” postcard initiative, a year-long partnership between Anne Labovitz’s I Love You Institute and the Women’s Caucus for Art. This session will highlight how artists, WCA chapters, and community members embraced this nomadic, socially engaged project—using small, handmade gestures to foster connection and care.
Since its launch on Valentine’s Day 2025 at the College Art Association Conference, the project has distributed over 1,500 postcards across the country. Participants will discuss the impact of engaging in gratitude as a radical act.
This final gathering also marks a transition: the project will move online, offering downloadable postcard templates so individuals and communities can continue the work independently. By expanding access, the “I am Grateful for You” project remains an open invitation to participate in radical acts of kindness—anytime, anywhere.

Bio: Anne Labovitz is a contemporary artist dedicated to making artworks that are urgent, participatory, and unrepentantly beautiful. She makes artwork that aims to challenge isolation, loneliness, and disconnection by activating color, movement, and light in large-scale immersive work. Local context and creating connections with others are embodied in her creative process. For Anne, color is energy, a life force and space is dialogical and dynamic. Using color, light, and movement, she creates experimental, site-specific work designed to engage a visceral and emotional place for viewers. More at https://labovitz.com/

Anne founded the “I Love You Institute” which is an artist-led site-specific project urgently working with communities to creatively address today’s world. The Institute combines art making, social justice, radical kindness, and relational listening to normalize saying “I Love You” as an alternative to division and conflict.

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