Dear Culturework community,

As we look into spring, we invite you to enjoy our Winter 2019 issue: Nourishment.

We had the chance to sit down for interviews with food justice folk at Food Workers Alliance in Chicago and 1149 Cooperative in Philadelphia. Each provided their wisdom and experience nourishing communities and working to create just systems within local food economies.

The striking conceptual multimedia piece, Mordant, continues the themes of food, tradition, and artisanship. A shared experience of culture and food is memorialized through a feast’s remains, absorbed in a table cloth.

Some of our contributors turned to nature for nourishment. Kako Ueda offers her paper cut silhouette, Garden, which serves as a metaphor for the body as an ecosystem, while Linda-Marlena Bucholtz Ross provides an intimate look at life transitions with Florilegium Contemporarium, a personal anthology of gathered, deconstructed flowers.

Celena Chong turns to cooking as emotional survival. Wafaama Somda allows us a glimpse into the role of boy scouts in his healing journey after surviving the Ivorian Civil War as a child. Sarah Cook offers alternative thoughts on sustaining the fight for social justice with Uses of Grumpiness.

Then, Nicole Murayama Nir brings us stillness as she walks us through the intentional routine that nourishes her life. In a similar thought, Michael Gatze invites us to reflect on silence through his stark landscapes.

Finally, we have a nourishing playlist, co-curated by Culturework Magazine and 1149 Cooperative.

Sincerely,

CULTUREWORK