On Tuesdays, each participant invited us into their kitchen and prepared a recipe that is of special significance to them. As the artist cooked the rest of us interacted and vicariously enjoyed the sensuous aromas, surroundings, and colours while listening to the cook’s family stories. On Thursdays, we met in our virtual studio to respond using different art techniques and materials. 

Through storytelling, art making and now cooking, MAMC developed a culture of listening, sharing, and honouring each other’s differences and similarities, creating change in the understanding of others and our own selves.  

MAMC will publish the recipes, correspondence, drawings, paintings, sculptures and collages in a collaborative cook-story book.

Imagine a project which brings together 12 women of diverse backgrounds, strangers to each other who come together twice a week and within a few sessions become a community, As we cook, make art, we exchange stories, laugh, learn about each other’s cultures. Intimate memories are shared in an atmosphere of openness and support.  At any time this would be a rarity but imagine this happening at a time of COVID when we are all isolated. And imagine this happening on zoom. Imagine what this means to us women.
Eileen, participant