Running September 26 - October 9, 2024
Location: Virginia Tech Creativity and Innovation District Building, Main Floor (185 Kent St. Blacksburg, Virginia)

The Food Moments exhibit is hosted by the VT Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation and features the work of artist Pat Augsburger and Food Anthropologist Phyllis Ressler. We hope you find a time to enjoy the exhibit while it is up!

A note from Pat and Pyllis

Our exploration of food in the Shenandoah Valley is filled with memories. From foraging to butchering, from warm bread to Thai soup, we experienced an incredible richness of flavor and culture. The experience of sharing food creates a powerful bond between people and place. This exhibition celebrates local people and their food stories.

Excerpts from Phyllis and Pat’s overview of the exhibit

You make a dish, you eat it, and it’s gone.
It is a short moment in time.
What is left are food memories,
memories that are powerful
and will nourish you through the years.
-Jacques Pepin

People ask us why—we write and paint about food.
So it happens that when we write and paint
about food we are really writing about relationships
and the hunger for them, and the warmth and
richness of friendships established and the
fine reality of hunger satisfied. -
-Adapted from MFK Fisher, The Gastronomical Me

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