The Potato Museum #KeeperoftheDay

#KeeperoftheDay – The Potato Museum, “the first museum about a vegetable.” “Tom Hughes and his wife, Meredith Sayles Hughes, are the couple behind the world’s first Potato Museum, the Food Museum Online, and the Food Heritage Center. The...

PAD/D #KeeperoftheDay

Dear Kitchen Sisters, Perhaps of interest for your excellent series is the story of PAD/D or Political Art Documentation/Distribution whose archives now rest in the Museum of Modern Art? Two people organized this resource about politically engaged art: Barbara Moore...

Theaster Gates #KeeperoftheDay

The Archive House, The Listening House, The Stony Island Arts Bank, The Dorchester Projects… Theaster Gates is a keeper of Greater Grand Crossing, his neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. He first encountered creativity in the music of Black churches on...