Sheldon Museum of Art will present a conversation, “A Diverse Menu: Race, Gender, Class, and the Things We Eat,” at 6 p.m. Feb. 19 in the Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium.
Sheldon’s new exhibition “Table Manners: Art and Food” will serve as a starting point for the conversation about food and social structures. Admission is free to both the museum and the event.
The conversation will feature Ijeoma Oluo, author of “So You Want to Talk About Race,” and Soleil Ho, restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and producer of the podcast “Racist Sandwich.” Casey Kelly, associate professor of communications studies at Nebraska, will moderate the discussion.
Oluo was named one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, NBC News, ELLE magazine, TIME, the Stranger and the Guardian. Her work focuses primarily on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice and the arts.
Ho has worked for restaurants in New Orleans and Minneapolis, and her writing has been published by the New Yorker, GQ, Eater and TASTE. She is also the author of the graphic novel “Meal.” Ho’s work engages the intersections between what we consume and how we see ourselves and our world.
Kelly studies rhetoric and cultural studies and explores a range of cultural proxy wars concerning gender, race and nationalism, including food and globalization. He is author of “Food Television and Other in an Age of Globalization” and received the National Communication Association’s Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award in 2018.
For more information, visit Sheldon’s website.
