About | More About The Foodstories Project

Quick Stats About the Foodstories Website

Number of stories collected:

80+ stories

Number of artists represented as a result of the national "Call to Artists":
29 Artists across the United States

Number of states represented:

17 States including: Delaware, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, and Washington

Art Mediums represented:

The mediums represented include: Digital photography, linocut, stop-motion video,
writing (poetry and non-fiction),
digital illustration, and dry pastel

Number of events attended by Foodstories:

There were a number of virtual and in-person workshops and major events including:

The Aplomb Project; Queerlective's "Storytelling for Social Change" conference; New Hampshire Humanities (for their Humanities@Home series); New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility - 25th Anniversary Celebration; Radically Rural's 2025: Rural Resonance Summit (which drew people from around the country); and Southern New Hampshire University's Office of Diversity and Inclusion

Number of organizations who officially partnered with Foodstories:

This work has been made possible through collaboration especially
with the following organizational partners:

Franco-American Centre

Greater Manchester Chamber

Manchester Arts Commission
*Funding support for all Manchester, NH – based activities and outreach*
New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility
Queerlective
Radically Rural

Overview of Foodstories

Foodstories is linked to my 2024-25 National Arts Strategies fellowship with the purpose of exploring the idea that food can be a bridge to who we are as individuals and as a human collective while also creating community. Certainly this is not a novel concept given the many who have either dedicated research, writing, and so many other explorations into our relationship to food.

That being said, as a storyteller and artist, I was interested in exploring the personal vignettes and stories that any one person may have about food. This could have been anything from a time when someone recalled cooking their favorite meal to other territories around food that are not so warm and fuzzy. I was also interested in exploring how any aspect of our personal memories about food also intersects with our sense of identity, culture, class, religion, and other aspects of our human identity.