At the Table

Summer 2022 | New York

At the Table featured prominent API visual artists, culinary artists, scholars, and designers in various forms of public events, including exhibitions and publications. Proceeds from the exhibition and the cookbook went towards Heart of Dinner, an AAPI charity fighting food insecurity.

“Food is a universal necessity that is intertwined in one’s journey in life, working as an archive of memory.”

(p.8, At the Table Cookbook, 2022)

30 prominent API artists presented at Christie’s flagship gallery providing opportunities for participants to have their stories and ideas reach a larger audience. We asked our guests to join us “At the Table” as we built awareness, shared stories, and strengthened our community.
100% of Christie’s proceeds were donated to Heart of Dinner.

AN AAPI AWARENESS FUNDRAISING EXHIBITION

At the Table

About Heart of Dinner

Founded at the onset of COVID-19, Heart of Dinner works to fight food insecurity and isolation experienced by Asian American seniors—two long-standing community issues heightened by the pandemic.

Heart of Dinner serves elders throughout NYC, delivering weekly care packages filled to the brim with culturally thoughtful hot lunches, fresh groceries, pantry essentials, and bulk ingredients while supporting local small businesses during their COVID-related recovery process. Our carefully curated foods are bundled inside uniquely decorated bags with handwritten notes of love attached.

“Coinciding with a private exhibition at Christie’s, composed of works from more than thirty AAPI artists, the NGO Civil Art has published a cookbook aimed at supporting and empowering the community being a voice to their culture through food. Born in the midst of the pandemic —an especially troubling time for Asian Americans— the cookbook features 46 family recipes of artists, writers, chefs and creatives.”
—Purple Fashion Magazine