The Artist Kitchen Salon series was a monthly program presented in partnership with INIVA and Studio Voltaire, exploring how memory, culture, and knowledge are conjured and shared through food. Each salon invited members of INIVA’s Research Network—including Holly Graham, Shenece Oretha, and Beatrix Pang—to engage in dialogue with curators, writers, artists, and other creatives over an evening meal.

Working closely with the participating artists, I collaborated to design menus that reflected and extended their ongoing research. The plant-based dishes served as both medium and method, facilitating conversation, reflection, and creative exchange. The salons created spaces where research, artistic practice, and lived experience intersected, encouraging participants to consider how communal eating can activate memory, storytelling, and collective imagination.

Through these collaborations, food became a tool for inquiry, connecting sensory experience with intellectual and cultural engagement while fostering intentional nourishment, dialogue, and collaboration.