bread & clay

Bread & Clay is grounded in the belief that we are inextricably connected to the natural world.  Natural materials can hold deep cultural significance, often symbolizing identity, heritage, and tradition. Specific materials can be tied to cultural practices, rituals, and storytelling.  

This space explores the use of natural materials in art and craft, and considers the cultural contexts that create deeper meanings and connections to heritage.  It explores the spiritual, symbolic, sacred and practical relationships indigenous and contemporary cultures have with flowers, fruits, seeds, leaves, wood, clay, soil, stone, wax, water and animal byproducts such as skins, hides, hairs, furs, fibers, feathers and bones.

It also celebrates foodways and the growing, harvesting, preparing, cooking, presenting, offering and sharing of food as an expression of identity, a connection to history and culture, an honoring of ancestry, and pays homage to hospitality as a form of self and community care.