The Sheldon Museum of Art will host a conversation titled “Diverse Menus: Race, Gender, Class, and What We Eat” on February 19 at 6 p.m. in the Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium.
Sheldon's new exhibit, “Table Manners: Art and Food,” will serve as a starting point for a dialogue about food and social structure. Museum and event admission is free.
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,” and will be moderated by Casey Kelly, associate professor of communications at the University of Nebraska.
Oluo was named one of The Root's “100 Most Influential African Americans” in 2017. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, NBC News, ELLE Magazine, TIME, The Stranger, The Guardian, etc. Her work primarily focuses on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, and the arts.
Ho has worked in restaurants in New Orleans and Minneapolis, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Eater, and TASTE. She is also the author of the graphic novel Meal. Ho's work addresses the intersection of what we consume and how we see ourselves and the world.
Kelly has studied rhetoric and cultural studies, and has researched a variety of cultural proxy wars over gender, race, and nationalism, including food and globalization. He is the author of Food, Television, and Other Stories in the Age of Globalization, which won the Carl R. Wallace Memorial Award from the National Communication Association in 2018.
For more information, visit Sheldon's website.