As a result of many years of cooking and facilitating programs for beloved community, Chef-in-Residence Jocelyn Jackson developed a healing food experience specifically for Black women and femmes to honor their cultural, ecological, and spiritual relationships to food. It is called TENDER SOUL SESSIONS. On Saturday, August 5th, Jocelyn and Nimah Gobir, Emerging Artist Program awardee currently exhibiting at MoAD, will co-create a courageous one hour table talk while cooking a customized diaspora dish based on the artists responses to three guiding questions. Join us LIVE to experience these two artists speak about the creative intersections of identity, art, and food.

Join us on Saturday, August 5th at 12pm live on MoAD’s Instagram @moadsf

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Jocelyn Jackson, MoAD's Chef-in-Residence is an award-winning chef, artist, teacher, and activist who was raised on the Kansas plains by a Tuskegee Airmen and the first Black woman to run for Mayor in Wichita.  She is the founder of JUSTUS Kitchen and the co-founder of People’s Kitchen Collective (PKC). Both organizations serve to center the lived experience and liberation of Black and brown peoples using food, art, and social justice as vehicles for change.  

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Nimah Gobir is the daughter of two Nigerian immigrants. Raised by a single mama and a textbook middle child, she creates art that explores her identity as a Black woman. Through paintings and installations, her work teases out both the nuances and shared experiences of being Black. She creates work in Oakland, CA.

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This Chef-in-Residence program is presented in conjunction with Nimah Gobir: Holding Space, on view through August 20, 2023.