The Art of Black Creole Cuisine

About this event

The International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management

Indigenous Film & Arts Festival

is pleased to partner with

Metropolitan State University of Denver’s

Center for Individualized Learning & Africana Studies

to present

The Art of Black Creole Cuisine: A Cooking Demonstration by Chef Jazz Holmes

Email: film@iiirm.org to reserve a seat!

Free – (suggested donation $5)

Jazz Holmes is both an accomplished fine artist and chef. Her mixed media paintings bring representation to the historic tapestry of cultural foodways within Black American society. She treats food as both archive and inheritance: a living record of agricultural labor, ancestral knowledge, and cultural survival. Her art reflects the essential relationship between people and the land, honoring the hands that cultivated, harvested, cooked, preserved, and transformed nourishment into tradition.

We are delighted to host an evening with Jazz Holmes as she brings her perspectives on food from the canvas to the kitchen with a lecture and cooking demonstration on Black Creole Cuisine. Please join us for a cultural conversation and a bit of good food.

Jazz identifies as Creole from Louisiana, whose family roots also include Afro-Panamanian, Gullah (African descendants in the coastal regions of the southern United States), Bajan (people from Barbados), and Caribbean ancestry. Her paintings reflect this mixture of ancestral influences, as does her other passion – cooking.

* Dishes prepared with pork and peanut oil