Food Art Bank included in Art Prospect Festival 2021

Food Art Bank student leaders stock the free refrigerator with produce, 2021.

Professor Jill Miller and undergraduate student Nassirah Nelson have created a collaborative work, Food Art Bank (FAB), that is featured in the "Art Prospect: Forms of Unity" exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia throughout the month of October. FAB is one of twenty international projects embedded in local communities and exhibited remotely, with several public events each week.

Food Art Bank is situated at Platform Artspace, a new socially engaged public art space that is a part of the Department of Art Practice. The project combines community-centered art experiences with basic needs distribution, in an effort to address and relieve some of the negative stigma attached to basic needs and income disparity. Together, Platform Artspace and FAB curate culturally relevant pop-up events with local artists, musicians, chefs, activists, and other cultural workers, creating many collaborations across the intersections of art and food. Programming is free and open to the public.

Weekly schedules are posted on the FAB and Platform Instagram accounts: https://www.instagram.com/foodartbank/ AND https://www.instagram.com/ucbplatform/