Food as Art centers around how food can be used as inspiration for and a medium in visual art-making. By reflecting on their own kitchens, memories, perceptions, feelings and families, young artists will explore their relationship to food and the stories that come from cooking and eating.
The Videos
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The Lesson Plans
Lesson 1 – Sight: A Rainbow of Spices
Lesson 2 – Touch: Stir, Chop, Pinch, and Roll
Lesson 3 – Hearing: Kitchen Sound Map
Lesson 4 – Smell: The Nose Knows What Time It Is
Lesson 5 – Taste: Sweet, Salty, Bitter, Sour, Umami
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About Ashley Frenkel
Ashley Frenkel (she/her) (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and teaching artist born and raised in NYC. She recently completed the MSEd program in Leadership and Museum Education from the Bank Street Graduate School of Education and is passionate about art as self-expression, storytelling, and learning. She has engaged young people in the arts through Marquis Studio, Abrons Arts Center, IlluminArts, the Rubin Museum of Art and others. Her visual and written art and interests span topics across art, science, history, culture, and food as she seeks to excavate the interdisciplinary and connected lens through which we view the world and make meaning as individuals and within community. Abstract relationships between color and form, the organic and geometric, and the experience of the body as a physical, gendered, relational, and vessel-like form are some of the things she is currently exploring in her art, writing and pedagogy.