Benjamin's Banquet... Our Relationships with Food

This exhibit explains how our culture is in love with food. Everyone is a foodie, knows a foodie, or wants to be a foodie. Our special events and celebrations are sculpted around gala cuisine. Our political spectrum develops around the production of food, the dispersing of food in local communities and the marketing of food products nationally and abroad. The consumption and attitudes surrounding food can clearly reflect the moral fiber of a society and the inner beliefs of a person. We have strong emotions linked with the very words “feast” or “famine” and wonderful memories associated with certain meals. Food creates a common understanding for comfort, hunger or convenience and deeper associations to GMO’s, poverty, body image and environmental issues.
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2016 from 5-8PM