A collaboration between Cincinnati-based chef-artist Maggie Lawson and farmer-artist Lyric Morris-Latchaw this project transforms the gallery into a reading room (a space for reflection and conversation) and a kitchen for putting up the abundance of the season.  The artists, who are both new mothers, strive to bring together the tension between preserving traditions and the desire for social change. As well as navigating the widening gap between urban and rural ways of living.  Are homemaking, homesteading, and mothering inherently oppressive tasks, or is there room for liberation within these traditions?

The artists will draw on their networks of farmers and deep thinkers to create a performative and evolving food based installation of preserved goods using canning, dehydration, fermentation alongside Lyrics’ sumptuous murals and a library of texts.

The show is on view through December 16th.