![]() Illustrator Clara Cline teamed with a conservation landscape curator Yolima Carr. One of the art installations is outdoors and will take time to marinate and complete. As a chef, Hock’ produces meals that bring people together. Nickel’s piece falls under the exhibition’s “food and connector” theme and tie into the artist’s childhood memories of eating with his family. ![]() Old Dominion University professor and artist Richard Nickel was partnered with Ian Hock, chef and owner of Norfolk’sĬodex restaurant and the executive chef at The Veil BrewingĬompany. I would say by the age of 8 and mostly because I had a stepfather who pointed out how I didn’t look like my step sister and called me Ms. One woman wrote: “I became aware of my body image very early. The responses to the questions are taped to each open door. The result, “Mirror Mirror,” encases each woman’s photograph and story in individual medicine cabinets – a peek into what would normally be private – and the shelves hold objects that relate to each woman, such as used makeup, bath salts and “Everything but the Elote” seasoning from Trader Joe’s market. Douglas photographed women of different shapes and sizes and had them write answers to questions such as how they define “healthy” and whether they have ever envied someone else’s body. Under the “food as connector” theme, photographer Angela Ramsey Douglas wanted to explore women’s relationship to their bodies and food. “I’m even more excited about my daughter going to school now,” Leone said. She was thrilled to learn about the school division’s scratch program and how it is helping students. Leone said the partnership was an education for her, too. On its limbs are mirrored ornaments in the shapes of foods like hot dogs, hamburgers and carrots to encourage children to ask what foods really grow on trees. I feel there’s a huge disconnect between humans and food.”įor the exhibition, she created a playful installation titled “Do Tomatoes Grow on Trees?” Children and adults can scout for the foods Leone incorporated in the tufted, colorful garden rug that surrounds a wooden tree whose branches dangle like a crib mobile. Leone said about the partnership, “that it was really in tune with what our family believes, to feel that connection around you. Meanwhile, Amato teaches students to plant vegetables from seed and work in the schools’ gardens so that they know that chicken doesn’t come from a Styrofoam package or vegetables from cans. Leone for years has been a forager and has taught her 5-year-old daughter how to find edible berries and mushrooms in the wild. The women had never met but soon realized they made a strong team. Amato walked Leone through the garden at Seatack Elementary, one of several school plots that Amato and her staff use to create a portion of the meals and recipes for more than 67,000 students. Nikki Leone is a Virginia Beach sculptor and mixed media artist who partnered with Rachel Amato, the district chef with Virginia Beach City Public Schools and its scratch kitchen program. The work of “Nourish” falls into three themes: “food literacy,” knowing where food comes, “food justice,” the idea that everyone has a right to healthy food, and “food as a connector,” the inherent power of food to bring people together and conjure up memories. ![]() “This is artists telling the story of food in our community.” “This is some of the most important work that I’ve ever been a part of,” Byrne said of the project. ![]() Virginia MOCA also held an open call for art from the public centered on the idea of food and memory and it received more than 100 pieces which are displayed in their own gallery. The site of a prominent civil rights sit-in demonstration in December of 1963, in which demonstrators were taken to Segregated lunch counters became a target of civil rights protests in the 1960s. Toddle House lunchĬounters, however, did not allow Black patrons. This is an image of a young Black woman at a lunchĬounter called Harlem House, which was a parallel chain to one called Toddle House. Lunch counters have a long history in American culture and often create a sense of community by encouraging people to sit and eat side by side. Helen Ann Smith at Harlem House, Beale St., Memphis, Tennessee, 1959, by photographer Ernest T. ![]()
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