Can artwork reconnect us with these we love, even from far-off? Siblings Samy Gálvez and Melina Anderson Gálvez immigrated to the USA from Guatemala a few years in the past and have spent a lot of their grownup lives aside from one another and their household. Understanding Melina was scuffling with isolation 1000’s of miles away throughout a Mormon mission, Samy needed to lend help. He wasn’t positive how you can do it till one life-changing go to to The Met. Hear how—over the course of a 12 months—sending 100 postcards that includes artworks from the Museum fostered deeper communication and belief between the siblings.

Friends: Samy Gálvez, MPH, epidemiologist and Melina Anderson Gálvez, editor and designer

Objects talked about on this episode:

Ganesha statue, 14th–fifteenth century. India, (Orissa). H. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York, Present of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman, 1964 (64.102)

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries), 1495–1505. Made in Paris, France (cartoon); Made in Southern Netherlands (woven). 144 7/8 x 99 in. (368 x 251.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York, Present of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937 (37.80.6)

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