COMMON GROUND: A SEAT AT THE TABLE
2017 – 2019

Direction
Heidi Lubin
Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose

Contributing Artists
Megan Flød Johnson
Michelle Cheng

Supported by a Museums for America Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

A Seat at the Table was a traveling pop-up exhibition that supported cross-cultural dialogue among the five largest immigrant populations throughout the South Bay. Using the universality of food as a starting point, the exhibition promoted shared stories of migration, adaptation, and intergenerational community building. As a teaching artist and facilitator for this project, I created recipe illustrations at each site based on conversations with participants.

Partners included Asian Americans for Community Involvement, Somos Mayfair, International Children Assistance Network, and the India Community Center.