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A stroll through some of TCF's limited edition hand crafted letter press poster series. We are proud to produce provocative, thoughtful and playful letter press posters. Take a look...
…“so even today, as the bees are struggling and hives are collapsing, a taste of honey or the hum of bees in my garden re-enlivens my belief that the sound of nature’s dreaming is the hum of bees and the sound of the hive”…
Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees
Watch Zulay Febres-Cordero, Artistic Director of Latino Arts Inc., and Sarah K. Khan of The Tasting Cultures Foundation, as they explore the multisensory art work of Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees. Descansos for the Bees, a memorial to the bees globally, who are disappearing because of colony collapse disorder. A good place to begin the Arts of Latino Foodways Exhibit, for without the bees to pollinate our crops and foods, we have nothing.
TCF’s Meal By Meal Seed Grants are small grants that allow either an individual or an organization to promote broadly agrobiocultural diversity. In particular, TCF funds qualified individuals or organizations to conduct research or to support programs on issues related to: food, culture, and the arts in a globalized world; diverse culinary traditions; historical migration of food with people; school and community gardens; and food security.
See the winners for 2011.
Three $700.00 grants for 2012 will be awarded. Click to download a PDF of the Meal By Meal Seed Grant Application Guidelines. Deadline for the grant application is 30 September 2012. Send application and supporting material to info@tastingcultures.org. Announcement of Award will be on 9th December 2012 via email.
Latino Arts Inc hosted Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loka to open The Arts of Latino Foodways Exhibit on 4th March 2011. Lemvo & Company, with their Afro-Latin beats, dazzled Wisconsin junior and high school students in a series of daily performances, in addition to the final opening night performance. Lemvo sang and serenaded the crowds in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Lingala.
A brief interview with Sarah K Khan, founder of The Tasting Cultures Foundation Inc., with an overview and introduction to the Arts of Latino Foodways show in Milwaukee WI. A continuing collaboration between TCF and the Latino Arts Inc., Milwaukee WI, 4 March 2011
A brief interview with Sarah K Khan, founder of The Tasting Cultures Foundation Inc., with an overview and introduction to the Arts of Latino Foodways show in Milwaukee WI. A continuing collaboration between TCF and the Latino Arts Inc., Milwaukee WI, 4 March 2011
Peggy Sue Dunigan writes in The Express/Milwaukee a review entitled "Latino Arts' 'Tasting Cultures' a Feast for the Eyes and Mind". In it she states that in "Tasting Cultures" exhibit approximately 30 artists celebrate food using ceramics, installations, paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures. The 40-plus artworks on display were co-curated with the Tasting Cultures Foundation Inc., an organization with members that believe food creates a pathway for education and understanding.
How do you taste memory? How do you connect to your history, your traditions and your ancestors? Up-rooted from ancestral lands, Africans arrived with their minds and cultural heritages intact despite the horrors of the “Middle Passage.” Enduring adversity, enslaved Africans put down roots in the soils of the Americas and grew new crops (as well as old) with resourcefulness and creativity. Africa’s contributions to the Americas are many. In particular, African foodways, as expressions of multiple ethnicities and histories, mixed and stirred with Indigenous American, European, and Asian foods to create distinctive hybrid culinary traditions.
TCF and SFA collaborated to present Theaster Gates and the Black Monks of Mississippi. The multitalented group dazzled the Sunday morning audience with songs praising Dave the Enslaved Potter of 1830s Charleston SC. Jarring and melancholic, the artists used their bodies as vessels to inspire, provoke and illuminate. Listen, watch, taste the performance.
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