With the support of a Temple University Presidential Humanities and Arts (PHA) grant, TUR alumni and professor William Pettit (’96), and Candice Smith Corby (’95) have been researching the relationships between food and art through painting, cooking, travel, and educational outreach. This video highlights these connections.
The Bottega Project begins with the idea that art and food represent the two most essential elements of survival, and that the two are intrinsically tied together in defining culture through their shared resources.
We want to trace the origins of the resources of food and art making through the landscape to find coincidences of sustenance and transcendence.
The hearth or communal fire unites the fundamental activities of physical and spiritual survival: making food, and making art; communicating with the land, with each other, and with whatever is beyond this present time and place.
By tracing patterns of cultural exchange throughout history, we want to draw a connection between diverse lands and peoples and to gather traces and remnants of them, sharing knowledge and experience through education for a more mindful future and put them back into the universe.