What can I do? What can we do?
In response to recent events of disharmony, social unrest, xenophobia, violence, and terrorism in the United States, the United Kingdom, AND around the World, this work began as a socially engaged art project to answer these questions by artist-educator Stacey Ward Kelly in the summer of 2016.
“From a young age, I felt very strongly connected to others and from this core of my being I have derived my centeredness and sense of a moral compass. My first project with food in 2010 was a collaborative book project (writings, recipes and photography) documenting a season that my family and I worked with a CSA farm. In 2012, I completed a thirty-day food challenge using the idea of cooking healthy meals toward improving my marriage. The next work was the Sunday Dinner Project, where I held four dinners during that summer and created a blog that documented how the realizing of “self” and identity occurs through the connection to others.
This work, however, is about ALL of us. It’s about what WE can do together. It’s about coming together. For peace. Right now. This weekend. Tonight. We can’t put this off. We owe this to our children, our brothers, our sisters, OURSELVES.”
“From a young age, I felt very strongly connected to others and from this core of my being I have derived my centeredness and sense of a moral compass. My first project with food in 2010 was a collaborative book project (writings, recipes and photography) documenting a season that my family and I worked with a CSA farm. In 2012, I completed a thirty-day food challenge using the idea of cooking healthy meals toward improving my marriage. The next work was the Sunday Dinner Project, where I held four dinners during that summer and created a blog that documented how the realizing of “self” and identity occurs through the connection to others.
This work, however, is about ALL of us. It’s about what WE can do together. It’s about coming together. For peace. Right now. This weekend. Tonight. We can’t put this off. We owe this to our children, our brothers, our sisters, OURSELVES.”