The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) is pleased to present: Dear Self With Love Letter Writing Workshop by Jenna Knapp.

Join Jenna's Dear Self With Love project by writing a letter to your future 2025 self. Set intentions, capture a memory or give yourself a pep talk to mark the transition. Participants often share how this process shifts their perspective on current goals, deepens self-love and creates a nostalgic, "time-capsule feeling" when they receive their letter back, sent from Jenna, months later.

Join us anytime between 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. The drop-in nature of this workshop is designed to give you plenty of time to go as deep with your writing as you’d like. Most people take 30-60 minutes from start to finish, but you’re welcome to take as much time as you need.
All materials provided. Sign, seal, address, decorate and drop your letter in our mailbox.
This letter is for your eyes only! Jenna will hold it for you until sending it back unopened at the beginning of 2025.
All ages welcome!

This workshop pairs with MIAD's 50th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Of Our Time, an immersive installation featuring nearly 200 alumni from the past 50 years of our creative history.

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Jenna Knapp (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist and space-holder. She earned her BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2014 and received the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for emerging artists after graduation. In 2016, she attended The Center for Substructured Loss residency in London, where she crafted her debut poetry collection, "I Kept Things I Did Not Need," self-published in 2017. From 2017–18, Knapp curated The Yellow Wallpaper Project from her attic, curating exhibitions centered on mental health. Currently, she dedicates most of her time to her latest studio project, Dear Self With Love, writing weekly newsletters and creating hand-bound annual self-love planners. She also tends to the walking labyrinth she designed in 2019 during her Lynden Sculpture Garden artist residency. This winding path, carved into native Wisconsin prairie, is featured in The Worldwide Labyrinth Locator catalog and visible on Google Maps.