FOOD FEED
St.ART’s Food Feed project took place 2024/25 programming at Flora House, Sergeant Tommy Prince Place, Ralph Brown Community Centre, and Studio 5. Food Feed focused on engaging participants in dialogue about food security, healthy eating habits and connecting with nutrition in a positive way.
Participants at Flora House partook in a series of food-based art activities focused on sustainability. These workshops included sunlight photo emulsion, print making, stamp making, tie- dye and making food based dyes and pigments. These workshops created conversations about sustainable and alternative methods for repurposing food scraps.
Using collage and drawing, participants collaborated on a community map that marked locations where healthy food can be found, like grocery stores, farmers’ markets and community gardens. To close out programming, participants designed their own totes bags using food based crafts. The tote bags included take-home snacks and art materials.
Over the course of 6 weeks, GAP partnered with the SOURCE for cooking program at Sergeant Tommy Prince Place. Led by Chef John, participants learnt food safety and meal preparation, giving them the skills and knowledge to make nutritious meals at home. Each week the program started off with a snack, which participants then prepared next week. This provided a chance for youth to taste the food before they made it the following week, and to be apart of sharing designs around which foods they were interested in learning how to cook.
These recipes and techniques were compiled into a cookbook, aimed at providing a baseline approach for beginners in the kitchen and encouraging creativity while cooking. In book binding workshops, participants sewed together their own cookbooks, and design a custom front cover. On the last day of programming, Chef John served hors d’oeuvres and participants took home meal kits filled with ingredients to recreate these recipes at home, and continue developing their skills in the kitchen.
At Ralph Brown Community Centre, GAP facilitated workshops around food, nutrition, and food preparation. During “My Sweet Tooth” workshops, participants choose from a variety of healthy snacks to create their own custom recipes. Then, we made their recipe as a snack for the community center. Along the way participants learnt about hand washing and proper kitchen safety, food preparation cookie decorating, sustainability and making recipes for a cookbook.
The recipes were gathered into a cookbook. Participants learnt book binding and collaborated on designed a custom cover. GAP assembled take-home meal kits with ingredients from the cookbook so participants could make the recipes with their household.
Participants at Studio 5 engaged in food based crafts and learnt food preparation. Programming included making pumpkin fudge, corn cookies, dragon’s beard, gelatin slime, sushi, fruit and vegetable critters, sushi, turmeric anthotypes, and decorating jars for take home cookie mixes. During programming, staff activated learning by asking participants about their food preferences and knowledge.
Follow along with these videos to create your own food based artwork at home!
We’d love to see your creations! Tag us on Instagram or email photos to start@graffitigallery.ca
Thank you to Studio 393 for providing tracks for these videos!
Graffiti Art Programming would like to thank The Winnipeg Foundation, the Province of Manitoba, and the City of Winnipeg for supporting Food Feed.
