Instead of labeling communities as “food deserts,” Goode Bryant recognized an opportunity for residents to grow their own food on empty plots of land. Photo: courtesy of Project EATS

A Black person stands next to a large tub of water. He is holding lettuce heads in each hand.

One of Project EATS’ goals is to create community-based food systems that provide both healthy, fresh food and local economic opportunities. Photo: courtesy of Project EATS

A Black person holding a basket picks tomatoes from a tomato plant.

Project EATS launched a project called Prepared Eats, which provides plant-based prepared meals to community members. Photo: Courtesy of Project EATS

Two Black people wear hats and stand in an outdoor garden space. They are looking at the plants growing in the garden.

Project EATS uses art, urban agriculture, and social enterprise to produce and distribute fresh, plant-based food in marginalized communities.

Sustaining Art, Food, Life 

Project EATS Founder Linda Goode Bryant at a farm on Randall’s Island in New York. Photo: Ari Marcopolous 

A Black woman stands in an indoor garden in a row of plants. She wears glasses and boots, looking at the camera.

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Artist Linda Goode Bryant on Creating Food Sovereignty with New York Communities: “Let’s Find the ‘Can’ in ‘Can’t’ ”

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 