6027 ATTENDEES

Chef-in-Residence

MoAD’s Chef-in-Residence program, the first of its kind in a contemporary art museum, has been seminal in creating space for people of color to give voice to crucial issues around food justice, climate justice, and social justice while nurturing a love of healthy foods, creativity, and community. From its very first offering, a panel discussion entitled Black Women, Food, and Power, to the widely lauded Black Food Summit in September 2022, the program under Chef-in-Residence Bryant Terry’s direction brought together hundreds of leading Black chefs, writers, scholars, activists, artists, and other creatives to advance the health and well-being of the African Diaspora.

Poets-in-Residence

Founded in 2018, the MoAD Poets-in-Residence program provides writers with opportunities to respond to contemporary art of the African Diaspora and extend the reach of the museum through programming embedded within historically marginalized Bay Area communities. This annual four-month paid residency provides two poets of African descent the opportunity to further develop their writing, while partnering with a local high school to lead youth poetry workshops. The 2022 Poets-in-Residence were Tureeda Mikell and Nefertiti Asanti.

African Literary Award

Presented by MoAD, the African Literary Award recognizes an African author who has produced a work of literary excellence and taken a leadership role in promoting writing and literacy in their local communities. The award is granted to an author whose work has been read by the Museum’s monthly African Book Club. In September 2022, author Rémy Ngamije was selected as the inaugural African Literary Award recipient for his book An Eternal Audience of One and his community literary initiatives in his home country of Namibia.