Art Farm at West Dry Creek

PORTALS OF HERITAGE:

a conversation between Artists-in-Residence, Narsiso Martinez and Jessy Slim, with special guest Artist/Author/Chef bryant terry

Moderated by SFMOMA and MoAD curator, Cornelia Stokes

Friday, March 20, 5-7pm
321 West Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg

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Photo credit: Bethanie Hines

Join artists Narsiso Martinez, Jessy Slim, and bryant terry, for a conversation moderated by SFMOMA and MoAD Curator Cornelia Stokes. Bringing together distinct yet deeply interconnected practices, the artists will explore how land, labor, and material histories shape their work.

Martinez’s drawings on discarded produce boxes foreground the often invisible labor of farmworkers; Slim’s chickpea-based sculptures use organic matter to encapsulate a material revisiting of trauma and transformation; and terry’s interdisciplinary practice bridges food, sculpture, and social practice to examine cultural memory and collective nourishment.

Set within the regenerative agricultural landscape of Art Farm, the conversation will consider how artists and farmers alike engage systems of cultivation, preservation, and regeneration. Together, the artists will reflect on how creative practice can illuminate the hidden infrastructures of food and agriculture, surface stories embedded in the land, and imagine more just and sustainable futures.

Beverages and light bites inspired by the artists’ heritage will be served.

Event Schedule:

  • 5pm - Arrivals & Heritage Bites

  • 5:30-6:30pm - Conversation 

About bryant terry

bryant terry is a multidisciplinary artist, chef, publisher, and author whose work explores resilience, cultural memory, and liberation through an interdisciplinary practice bridging cooking, sculpture, sound, video, and social practice. His work has earned a James Beard Award, an NAACP Image Award, and an Art of Eating Prize. In 2025, terry completed an MFA in Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley and was subsequently awarded a 2025–2026 Graduate Fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts. From 2015 to 2022, he served as the inaugural Chef-in-Residence at San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora, curating dynamic programming connecting art, food, health, farming, and activism. His art and ideas have been featured at leading institutions including the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Underground Museum, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, and The Hammer Museum at UCLA.

Photo credit: David Schmitz

About narsiso martinez

Martinez (b. 1977, Oaxaca, Mexico) came to the United States when he was 20 years old. He attended Evans Community Adult School and completed high school in 2006 at the age of 29. He earned an Associate of Arts degree in 2009 from Los Angeles City College. In the fall of 2012 Narsiso earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University Long Beach. In the spring of 2018, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting from California State University Long Beach and was awarded the prestigious Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited both locally and internationally. His work is in the collections of the MFA Houston, LACMA, Buffalo AKG Museum, Hammer Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, MOLAA, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Martinez was awarded the Frieze Impact Award in 2023. Martinez lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is represented by Charlie James Gallery.

Photo credit: Yubo Dong, Ofstudio

About Jessy Slim

I create work about a space in between, a place that deconstructs, re-frames, re-examines our surroundings, systems in place and their implications. Utilizing architecture, installation, sculpture and photography, intuition and memory drives my research-making based practice. These projects find means of critiquing power, authority and synthesize a way to understand and question the innate nature of things around us. Through my own grappling of displacement, my work encompasses and embraces my personal history through the lens of a Lebanese immigrant.

About cornelia stokes

Cornelia Stokes curatorial practice is based in Pan-African practices and kinship, focusing on building community through the arts and philosophies of the Black diaspora. Looking to complexify the oversimplification of Blackness within mainstream culture, Stokes invests in opportunities to promote and explore the wide varieties of the Black experience. Cornelia Stokes is the inaugural Assistant Curator of the Art of the African Diaspora with The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD).

Photo credit: Kelvin Bulluck

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