Art Insights: Roots and Recipes
April 23 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Celebrate the launch of artist Laura Tanner’s AMFA residency and participate in her community-driven project, Dish – an exploration of food, memory, and place.
Making connections with AMFA’s exhibition A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time, Tanner shares how her creative process transforms shared recipes and stories into art that reflects the rituals of cooking, gathering, and traditions.
Local chefs join the conversation to discuss how Arkansas ingredients and culinary heritage shape their own work, then invite attendees to savor small bites from their restaurants in the Atrium.
Stay tuned for more information – guest chefs to be announced soon!
Art Insights: Roots and Recipes with Laura Tanner is supported in part by the John and Robyn Horn Foundation.
The Mid-South Cohort, a multi-year, multi-institutional exhibition partnership formed by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Fisk University Art Gallery, and the Mississippi Museum of Art, is made possible by the Art Bridges Cohort Program. This exhibition was organized by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.
ARTWORK: Laura Tanner (Atlanta, Georgia, 1987 – ), Stacked II (Miami, FL) (detail), 2023, ink and gouache on hand-cut Mylar, 54 x 86 in., Courtesy of the artist.
Straddling drawing and social practice, Laura Tanner’s works act as archives of regional foodways, shedding light on how recipes and traditions surrounding the gathering table reflect regional challenges and inform collective identity.
