NYAB Event - “Food Fighters” Exhibition

“Food Fighters” Exhibition

CUE Art Foundation

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FOOD FIGHTERS was a six-week pilot program for teen artists. Participants learned about food justice as it relates to income inequality and created new artwork on the topic.

In July, the students began internships at three different food justice organizations in New York City—Drive Change, Mt. Sinai Health, and Harlem Grown—contributing a minimum of eight hours per week for six weeks. The students also met weekly at CUE Art Foundation where they shared their internship experiences, and heard from guest artists and activists such as Tattfoo Tan, Tanya Fields, and Robyn Hillman-Harrigan.

Other works by the students are currently on view in the exhibition In Search of One City: Sensing (in)equality at The Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Curated by Katherine Gressel.

Here’s what one of our teens had to say about the program:

I learned that everyone should have access to affordable fresh and healthy food. More people than I realized did not have this access. My internship further showed me the lack of access and information many people experience daily.

I also learned that even though I am small and young I can still make a big difference. Everyone who wants to can make changes and make things better in whatever way they choose, whether it be through art, activism, education, work, or a combination.

- Lauren, 16

Food Fighters was co-developed by the Artist Volunteer Center and With Food in Mind. With Food in Mind develops art-based approaches to food education and food injustice, exploring the potential of visual art and artists to impart nutritional knowledge and to affect change in childhood obesity in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.

Funding for FOOD FIGHTERS was generously provided in part by The Pollination Project.

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