Interested in cultivating beauty, love, and flourishing in life and the world? Join BU Arts Initiative for Life in Appreciation: The Beautiful Life Workshop and Artist Talk — an evening of healing, community, and inspiration with artist, Vivienne Kim!

Drop in anytime from 5–6:30pm for a reflective experience with Vivienne Kim and design your journey to a beautiful life while enjoying delicious refreshments. Attendees will have a chance to view the exhibition at 5 PM and the artist talk and workshop will begin at 5:30 PM. We’ll have all the supplies you need to be creative. Light refreshments will be provided.

Vivienne Kim is an artist whose life is graced by the care of beauty. Having recovered from an extensive medical challenge that expanded her multidimensional perception of beauty—found in people at various stages of life across diverse social, cultural, and vocational contexts, as well as in the world—she transforms her contemplative aesthetic upbringing into the Care of Beauty Initiatives. This initiative merges interdisciplinary research, artistic expression, and philanthropy to rediscover a home for humanity in a world shaped by hostility, resourcefulness, and beauty. Now, as a philanthropist, artist, and scholar, she aspires to illuminate the human experience of aesthetic consciousness as a regenerative force in cultivating dignified individuals and shaping a flourishing world.

Life in Appreciation: An Elegant Move to Aestheticus Phrase No. I. is an artistic expression of Vivienne Kim’s theoretical development of homo aestheticus at Boston University School of Theology where she studied at the intersection of religion, aesthetics, education, and psychology. It reflects her contemplation of human destiny as intertwined with the formation of the world. The four paintings, along with her personal artifacts featured in the exhibition, illustrate the movement of aesthetic consciousness in cultivating the art of living through four aspects of human nature: from sapiens (knower), ludens (player), and faber (maker) to the emergence of aestheticus (beautiful human).