SIX x ATE: Fruition
December 8th
Virtual Event
Nisha Blackwell (2016)
Lenka Clayton (2013)
Sarika Goulatia (2015)
Yona Harvey (2012/13)
Nina Sarnelle (2012/15)
Alisha B. Wormsley (2014)
Food by: 412 Food Rescue (2016)
Special Partnership: Contemporary Craft’s “Food Justice: Growing a Healthier Community through Art” Exhibition
In 2021, SIX x ATE closed out its 10 year run with a grand finale virtual event featuring all-star alums and partners. We had some great guest appearances from the staff and volunteers who made this event possible over the years. Learn more about the artists and contributors below, and check out our recordings from the evening.
ABOUT 412 FOOD RESCUE
412 Food Rescue launched in 2015 in direct response to the disconnect that nearly 40% of all food produced is wasted while 1 in 7 people face food insecurity. Thanks to thousands of volunteer food rescue heroes, our model of food recovery and redistribution prevents perfectly good food from entering the waste stream and brings healthy food directly to people who need it.
The Good Food Project, a program of 412 Food Rescue, launched in 2019 as an extension of our mission to reduce food waste and address hunger. The program, which operates out of a shared space in the Millvale Food + Energy Hub, creates approximately 400 healthy, heat-and-eat meals from surplus food each week to serve our nonprofit partners. The program is slated to expand this production to 2,000 meals per week by the end of 2021.
Meals for this event were created by Greg Austin, Good Food Project Manager, and showcased just how delicious rescued food can be. Good food belongs to people, not landfills.
ABOUT CONTEMPORARY CRAFT’S FOOD JUSTICE: GROWING A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY THROUGH ART EXHIBITION
More than 35 million people in the United States are food insecure, and the need to overcome this challenge is greater than ever. In Food Justice: Growing a Healthier Community through Art, 15 contemporary artists offer the opportunity to visualize and explore the dimensions of national and regional food systems and the advocacy critically important for social change and community well-being.
Food Justice: Growing a Healthier Community through Art
September 10, 2021 – March 19, 2022
contemporarycraft.org | #CCFoodJustice
ABOUT THE SIX X ATE ARTISTS
Nisha Blackwell is a Sustainable Fashion Designer and Founder of Knotzland, a Circular lifestyle brand founded in 2015 that sources, rescues, and repurposes discarded textiles into stylish accessories. Each is made thoughtfully through through providing flexible work-from-home opportunities to women around the region. To date, Knotzland has disrupted over 3,000 lbs of materials from entering landfills and cultivated a network of 26 moms, students, grandmothers, and sewing enthusiasts in and around the Pittsburgh region who sew from home as part of the production team. Because of this unique approach to wearable art and its intersection of social and environmental sustainability, Blackwell's and Knotzland have been featured in campaigns and alongside brands like Google, Youtube, Macy's, SAP, Facebook, T-Pain, The W Hotel, The Frick Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Smithsonian Craft Optimism Show.
Lenka Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist. She is also the founder of An Artist Residency in Motherhood which currently has 1,200 participants in 67 countries. Her work has been shown at institutions including The Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Art, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Sarika Goulatia’s extensive practice stems from the intersection of her dual national identity. Her large-scale sensory sculptures and installations have included mediums such as sculpted ceramics, cast-bronzes and aluminum, fabricated acrylic and wood panels, digital prints, drilled and nailed wood, and assemblages using found objects. Goulatia’s practice draws on socio-political-cultural issues affecting our community and country at large..
Yona Harvey’s poetry books are You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love, winner of The Believer Book Award in Poetry, and Hemming the Water, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Writing Program.
Nina Sarnelle is an artist and musician living on stolen Tongva/Kizh/Chumash land often referred to as Los Angeles. A founding member of the Institute for New Feeling and dadpranks, her work includes performance, music, video and sculpture, and has been shown at the New Museum, MoMA, Whitechapel Gallery, Hammer Museum, Getty Center, Ballroom Marfa, Black Cube and others institutions.
Alisha B. Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Wormsley views her art as a rebellion like being a Black womxn in America. Her work contributes to the imagining of the future of arts, science, and technology through the Black womxn lens, challenging contemporary views of modern American life through whichever medium she feels is the best form of expression: creating an object, a sculpture, a billboard, performance, or film. The work is a bridge for social engagement, activism, the redistribution of wealth, science fiction, public art and film and media to reveal lesser-known histories and fantasize about alternative futures.