"My Life in a Bowl"
is a popup dinner series hosted at Artshack Brooklyn, a ceramic studio with a cafe that crafts all of the plates, cups, bowls and other ceramic pieces used in the cafe. This series is curated by Top Chef contender, chef Silvia Barban. Chef Barban invites a different Chef Friend each month for this series to curate a menu that resonates with their culture and background. This series is intended to celebrate not only the chef curating the dinner, but to also celebrate the power of food and how it brings community together to enjoy space, food, and ceramics all at once.
Every time an artist from the Artshack studio will create a Ceramic bowl inspired by the Chef that will be cooking. The connection between food ceramics, that wants to create also an emotion or a memory for our guest and that connection can be then write it down on a piece of paper and put it in the bowl of the chef .
For May's dinner, we're hosting Chef Mavis-Jay Sanders, who's food focuses on celebrating Black American heritage, joy, and a journey to reclaim Black food sovereignty.
Mavis-Jay is a 2022 James Beard Award honoree for leadership. She is a social and racial equity activist who has dedicated her career to fighting for food justice in Black and low-income communities. The impact of her work has been increasingly recognized by the organizations that celebrate and support excellence in the industry. She's garnered not only a feature in a collaborative exhibit between The Museum of Food & Drink (MOFAD) and The Africa Center, a Game Changer Award by Dine Diaspora as well, she's also been honored as one of Star Chefs’ New York Rising Stars. She is a James Beard Chef’s Policy Boot Camp alum and a mentor to the James Beard Foundation’s Fellowship Program. She can also be found as an establishing board member of the Queer Food Foundation, on God’s Love We Deliver’s culinary counsel, and in the Black Farmer Fund investment committee.