Gabrielle Patterson

Gabrielle Patterson will collaborate with The People’s Kitchen to create a mixed media video piece, as well as illustrations, animations, and short-form video content for social media on gardening, sustainable agriculture, and food traditions. Through relationship building, interviews, and surveys, Gabrielle will learn about the food traditions of the neighbors of The People’s Kitchen Gardens, the impact the gardens have on them, and incorporate this knowledge into her work – amplifying the garden’s larger goals related to land justice, food insecurity, and community land sovereignty.

The People’s Kitchen is a chef-led community kitchen and farm which serves free meals 7 days a week. Founded in 2021 as a guerilla garden on 20 vacant lots, the Kitchen uses food to empower, transform, and heal the community through free, nutritious meals, gardening, and education. Their vision is a community where no one is without access to healthy food.