Making Worlds: Art, Food, Memory, and the Futures We Create

From the kitchen to the studio, the archive to the gallery, bryant terry’s interdisciplinary practice asks how creative work can make new worlds. Presented in conversation with "Excavating Uranus, A Psalm for Nyota Uhura", this participatory workshop and multimedia presentation draws on histories of the African diaspora to explore memory, time, and imagination across art, food, publishing, and social practice. Through conversation, reflection, and a cooking demonstration, terry considers how acts of making can transform inherited histories, landscapes, and everyday cultural practices into sites of connection and collective possibility. Moving between past, present, and future, the workshop invites participants to consider how what we inherit might become material for imagining and creating more just and abundant worlds.

Space is limited. To RSVP, email sfac.galleries@sfgov.org

About the artist
Bryant Terry is a multidisciplinary artist, chef, publisher, and author whose practice bridges cooking, sculpture, sound, video, and social practice to explore resilience, cultural memory, and liberation. From 2015 to 2022, he served as the inaugural Chef-in-Residence at San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora, curating programming connecting food, health, farming, art, and activism. His work and ideas have been presented at institutions including the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Underground Museum, and the Hammer Museum at UCLA. Terry is the founder and editor-in-chief of 4 Color Books, an imprint of Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House, and the author of five acclaimed cookbooks. His honors include a James Beard Award and an NAACP Image Award. Terry received his MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley in 2025 and holds an MA in History from NYU.