The Nicholson Project invites you to register for our 2026 Workshop Series. Participants will have the unique opportunity to take part in one-day workshops led by local artists from Nicholson’s artist community working in a variety of artistic backgrounds. The goal of these workshops is the development of creative practices by providing hands-on experience with new mediums. Registration is open to all adults ages 18 and up; no prior artistic knowledge is required.

The Durational Performance of Cut Fruit, led by Adele Kenworthy, is a one-day workshop exploring what the natural preservation of unnatural objects looks like for archiving memories. In this workshop, we reimagine the art of air-drying persimmons (gotgam) through clay, inherited gestures, NFC tags, and cut fruit. Participants will sculpt their own clay fruit and embed them with a memory they carry for someone they love, recorded as a voicemail. When a smartphone is placed near a clay fruit, it activates a link allowing others to hear the story held within.

Cost: $75, or $200 for all three workshops.
Includes all artist materials.
REGISTER

Adele 이슬 Kenworthy (she/they) is a 1.5 generation Korean American artist-organizer. Her work centers the AANHPI femme experience, exploring what gestures and rituals we hold onto as sites of comfort and resistance during occupation and war—through participatory performance, sculpture, and photographic archives.

Using organic, ephemeral materials— cut florals and fruits—she transforms embodied gestures of care into sculptural forms and durational performances, each a living monument to resilience and counter-memories existing in public.