1708 Gallery is pleased to announce 2x3: Love, the latest version of our community engagement series. From June 23 – August 13, 2025, 1708 will open its doors to 2 artists to each occupy the gallery for three and a half weeks. Both artists will have the opportunity to develop or enhance projects focused on love ‒ love of ourselves, our fellow humans, our planet, and our future.

George Ferrandi will present The Constellate of Future Love — a collaborative inquiry into how we care for tomorrow’s people, plants, animals, ideas, and places, starting today. Constellates are the framework for collaboration within Ferrandi’s participatory project, Jump!Star, in which community “dreamstorming” sessions explore how we might create new cultural traditions for the future. The Constellate of Future Love will take shape through a series of gatherings, performances, and collective actions. Its final form is yet to be discovered — and we invite you to help us invent it! What we create together will be part of Jump!Star’s grand premiere: Super!Giant!Jump!Star! at InLight 2025 this fall.

Justice Dwight will introduce The Queer Prom project, a love letter to the selves we once hid and the joy we’re reclaiming. Through quilts stitched with memory, portraits full of light, and moments shared in community, this project holds space for healing where glitter meets grief, and beauty becomes resistance. Justice’s Queer Prom Project aims to celebrate authentic self expression, rooted in love. This ongoing series asks the viewer what would a world look like if you were allowed to show up as your full, unapologetic self?

Past iterations at 1708 Gallery include 10x10: Richmond Takes the Gallery; 5x5: Summer Studio Sessions; 3x3: Community; 3x2: Transformative Capsules; and 5x5: Den of Ingenuity. Across all, artists used the time and space to try something different, test an idea, experiment with a project, and engage with new audiences. The series was inspired by “We Are,” a program hosted at Nurture Art in New York that envisioned the gallery as a communal space.