bryant will be an artist-in-residence at Art Farm at West Dry Creek. Learn more about the residency here.
Join The Charlie Cart Project for a lively cocktail reception to celebrate the magic ingredients behind it all and discover what makes The Charlie Cart truly special.
Together, we'll toast to a decade of impact and fuel the next generation of confident, nourished kids.
The evening features Charlie Cart Educators and remarks from Bryant Terry, James Beard Award winning chef and author. We'll be joined by acclaimed food writer Harold McGee, and honor Alice Waters for her leadership in Food Education and early support of the Charlie Cart Project.
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auction: Thursday, October 22. 7-10pm
Join Root Division as they celebrate a major milestone: 25 years of championing artists, building community, and investing in the creative future of the Bay Area. As Root Division’s largest fundraiser of the year, the Annual Benefit Art Auction brings together collectors, artists, and supporters for an unforgettable evening of art and impact.
bryant donated Cotton as Witness, a Van Dyke brown print on cotton created in conjunction with his work What the Black Belt Carries, which onsiders cotton as both material and witness. Printed directly onto cotton using the historic Van Dyke brown photographic process, the image reflects on the agricultural landscapes of Alabama’s Black Belt and the intertwined histories of land, labor, memory, and transformation.
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Bryant will be reading at San Francisco’s LitQuake on October 26. More information soon.
November 12, 2026 | 6–8 PM
Join bryant terry for an artist talk in conjunction with Excavating Uranus, A Psalm for Nyota Uhura, a group exhibition curated by Ashara Ekundayo at the San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery, featuring works by Sydney Cain, Ayana V. Jackson, Courtney Desiree Morris, and bryant terry.
Terry will discuss his interdisciplinary practice spanning visual art, food, memory, and the archives of the African diaspora, exploring how creative work can illuminate the past, engage the present, and imagine more just and abundant futures.
Location: SFAC Main Gallery, San Francisco
More information coming soon.
I’ll be presenting at the UC Berkeley Haas Food Systems Innovation Summit, convened by the new Collaborative for Food Systems Innovation. The Summit brings together thought leaders, students, alumni, and industry partners to explore the future of food through the interconnected lenses of health, climate, equity, finance, and innovation.
I’m looking forward to contributing to this day of conversation, collaboration, and imagining more equitable and sustainable food systems.
Learn more and register:
https://haas.berkeley.edu/food-systems-innovation/summit/
Making Worlds: Art, Food, Memory, and the Futures We Create A Participatory Workshop and Cooking Demonstration with bryant terry
Saturday, December 5, 2026 2:00–4:00 PM San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery, San Francisco
Presented in conjunction with Excavating Uranus, A Psalm for Nyota Uhura, Making Worlds invites participants to explore the intersections of art, food, memory, and imagination.
From the kitchen to the studio, the archive to the gallery, bryant terry’s interdisciplinary practice considers how creative work can make new worlds. Drawing on histories and cultural traditions of the African diaspora, this participatory workshop combines a multimedia presentation, conversation, reflection, and a cooking demonstration to explore how inherited histories, landscapes, and everyday practices can become sites of connection, creativity, and collective possibility.
Moving between past, present, and future, terry invites participants to consider how the stories, traditions, and knowledge we inherit can inspire us to imagine and create more just and abundant worlds.
More information coming soon.
’m pleased to be part of Excavating Uranus, A Psalm for Nyota Uhura, a group exhibition curated by Ashara Ekundayo and presented by the San Francisco Arts Commission. Featuring work by Sydney Cain, Ayana V. Jackson, Courtney Desiree Morris, and bryant terry, the exhibition explores Black temporalities, ancestral knowledge, memory, and the possibilities that emerge when past, present, and future are understood as interconnected worlds.
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 8, 2026 | 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Join bryant for a community celebration at the Greene Garden, a member-run community garden in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where he will discuss his latest books with a Q&A and signing to follow! Feel free to bring your own plant-based dish to share!
Books to purchase courtesy of Greenlight Bookstore
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bryant terry will serve as the featured speaker for NYU’s Liberal Studies Global Lecture, a signature annual event that welcomes an internationally renowned voice to the Washington Square campus to spark interdisciplinary dialogue and inspire boundary-crossing work across cultures, disciplines, and geographies.
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bryant will be presenting at Lick-Wilmerding High School’s Head, Heart, Hands EIB Conference Series—THE HANDS TRACK, where action meets equity and inclusion in education. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to engage, create, and drive real change!
We would especially love to welcome high school students and educators from across the Bay Area–from public, private, independent, charter, and other schools–to join us. Families and Bay Area community organizations are also warmly encouraged to attend!
Featured artists: Cal Calamia, bryant terry, Leia Chang, Kai Harris, and Tanya D. Fitzgerald. We're looking forward to a day of conversation, reflection, and skill-building through the lenses of identity, justice, and community care.
See bios for our special guests and grab a free ticket at: https://lnkd.in/grMDfEPy
Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts provides a once-a-season opportunity to roam the various buildings of our campus, meet current artists, view works in progress, and attend screenings, performances, and readings. See what Artists in Residence and Graduate Fellows are up to in their studios, stop by the Project Space to view in-progress installations, and enjoy a housemade lunch from the Mess Hall. Come see some of bryant’s work-in-progress and here about what he’s up to lately.
Join bryant for his culminating Graduate Fellow Exhibition at Headlands Center for the Arts, on view June 28 through August 23. This exhibition marks the culmination of his time as a Graduate Fellow and features new work that continues his exploration of memory, land, preservation, and collective nourishment through sculpture, installation, and social practice.
The opening will take place on Sunday, June 28. We’ll gather for a reception from 4–6PM, followed by a public supper in the Mess Hall from 6–8PM — continuing the tradition of bringing people together around art, conversation, and a shared meal.
More information soon.
Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts provides a once-a-season opportunity to roam the various buildings of our campus, meet current artists, view works in progress, and attend screenings, performances, and readings. See what Artists in Residence and Graduate Fellows are up to in their studios, stop by the Project Space to view in-progress installations, and enjoy a housemade lunch from the Mess Hall. Come see some of bryant’s work-in-progress and here about what he’s up to lately.
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bryant will be headlining the Our Mother’s garden book festival in support of The Obodo Collective, a Black women–led nonprofit organization focused on community empowerment, food sovereignty, and reducing multigenerational poverty, particularly in the historically underserved Historic Westside neighborhood of Las Vegas.
More information soon.
bryant will deliver an artist lecture on the UC Berkeley campus, sponsored by the Department of Art Practice. Visit here for more information.
Join the New School as it hosts artist, chef, publisher, and author bryant terry for an immersive evening exploring the intersections of ancestral foodways, Black agrarian thought, community-based art practice, and food justice.
The Food Studies Program and Food and Social Justice Action Research (FJAR) Lab are proud to host this event as a part of the FJAR Lab’s “Understanding Food and Environmental Justice through Music” Initiative. The evening is co-sponsored by the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University.
The event is part of our 2025-26 series “Food and Democracy,” supported in part by The New School’s university-wide strategic initiative on Democracy and Culture.
More information here.
bryant will be performing at a collective ritual reading performance celebrating the life and works of James Baldwin.
On March 31st, you are invited to witness Testify, the fourth performance in a series of Ritual Readings celebrating the work of Black literary ancestors in the African diaspora. Testify celebrates the life and works of James Baldwin by gathering artists, scholars, activists, spiritual workers, and everyday people to create a shared space for grief, reflection, and ancestral veneration. Readers perform as a choir to create sound, music, and movement through an embodied engagement with the text, and the public is invited to bear witness and engage through deep listening, stillness, and call-and-response.
This reading is conducted by Courtney Desiree Morris and Martín Perna. Readers include Brett Cook, Odaymar Cuesta, Babatunji Johnson, Khalil Anthony Peebles, Brontez Purnell, Bryant Terry, Zacarias Musele Thompson, Henry Washington Jr., and Marvin K. White.
More information here.
bryant will be introducing Leah Penniman at the Bioneers Conference, a gathering place for those working to defend the web of life and build a more just, life-honoring world.
The right to food and the right to land are fundamental to human freedom, dignity, and self-determination, but locally and globally, land and food have been leveraged as tools of oppression. Fortunately, they can also be portals for liberation. Renowned groundbreaking Black Kreyol farmer and food justice activist, Leah Penniman, founder of Soul Fire Farm and author of Farming While Black, offers us living proof that when Land is reunited with her people, mutual thriving can flourish in the form of solutions to climate chaos and food apartheid. Even in this era of intense state repression, community self-determination and solidarity can be foundational to building a powerful movement for land and food sovereignty.
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bryant will unveil a new sculptural painting in the group exhibition Open Inquiry: UC Arts at the Sausalito Center for the Arts. The exhibition brings together a new generation of artists emerging from the renowned art practice programs at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Davis.
Grounded in the idea that research is not limited to laboratories or archives, Open Inquiry frames artistic practice as a vital mode of inquiry. Through multi-disciplined, critically engaged studio practices, the exhibiting artists question, test, analyze, and interpret—performing acts of research with their making processes. The art studio becomes a site for creative problem-solving, where painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and digital media operate as tools of critical inquiry.
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Join bryant at Art Farm at West Dry Creek where he will be in conversation with artists Narsiso Martinez and Jessy Slim about their work which sits at the intersection of food and farming.
More information here.
bryant will be giving a virtual presentation to the employees of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). This is a closed event.
bryant will be featured in the February edition of Stanford d.school’s monthly series of talks and activities to build one’s creative potential and practice. Each month, they dive into one Creative Essential with a special guest speaker, exploring the practices and perspectives that help us design, imagine, and create with purpose. To learn more visit here.
Join bryant at the University of Chicago for a powerful celebration of Black History Month, centered on stories of resilience and strength. Held at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts on February 4, 2026, at 6:00 PM (CST), this evening will be filled with culture, history, community, and recipes inspired by bryant’s book Black Food.
The program also includes a screening featuring two South Side staples, sharing their stories of impact, growth, and resilience. Following the film, bryant will join the student filmmakers onstage for a conversation exploring the themes brought to life in their work.
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bryant will be doing several events on at the University of Vermont from February 2nd through 4th. On Monday, February 2 UVM Dining Services will host bryant for a culinary demo and conversation from 4-5:30. On Tuesday, February 3 from 11am-1:30pm, Waterman Manor will host bryant for an exclusive dining experience, featuring a menu composed of dishes from bryant’s books.
An Evening with bryant terry & George McCalman at Headlands Center for the Arts
Join us for a special evening at Headlands Center for the Arts featuring James Beard Award–winning chef, author, and current HCA fellow bryant terry in conversation with acclaimed San Francisco–based artist, author, and designer George McCalman. Together, they will reflect on their ever-evolving creative practices, their collaborations—including McCalman’s celebrated design of Terry’s award-winning Black Food—and their visions for how art and visual storytelling can shape culture and community.
The evening will include:
A seasonal, ingredient-driven dinner co-created by terry and HCA’s Chef Damon Little, celebrating the flavors and ingredients of the African Diaspora.
A lively conversation on art, storytelling, and cultural imagination between terry and McCalman.
A book signing featuring terry’s newly edited anthology The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025, as well as Black Food and Vegetable Kingdom, and Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen, with books sold by Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest Black-owned bookstore.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience an evening where food, art, and community come together at the crossroads of creativity and cultural celebration.
More information visit here.
bryant will be in conversation with Kristin Lawless , an independent journalist and nutrition expert, about his new book. For more information visit here.
bryant will be doing events on campus in collaboration with the Yale Sustainable Food Project. MOre information soon.
bryant will be in conversation with journalist Korsha Wilson and signing books. More information soon.
Join acclaimed culinary historian and James Beard Award-winning author Michael W. Twitty and artist, chef, and publisher bryant terry for a powerful conversation about Twitty’s new book, Southern Cooking: An African American Reckoning with the Soul of a Region. In this deeply personal and illuminating work, Twitty traces the roots and evolution of Southern cuisine – celebrating its joys, confronting its contradictions, and honoring its deep ties to Black history and identity.
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Come see some of bryant’s work-in-progress and see him perform a piece he recently wrote.
Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts provides a once-a-season opportunity to roam the various buildings of our campus, meet current artists, view works in progress, and attend screenings, performances, and readings. See what Artists in Residence and Graduate Fellows are up to in their studios, stop by the Project Space to view in-progress installations, and enjoy a housemade lunch from the Mess Hall.
Visit here for more information.
Join us in celebrating the publication of Bryant’s latest book, The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025, which he edited. Visit here for more details.
Every recipe carries a philosophy, every meal a history, every shared table a future. But what happens when war, displacement, and cultural erasure threaten not just lives but the very ideas and traditions embedded in what we eat?
In The Last Sweet Bite, Michael Shaikh, a former human rights investigator who spent nearly two decades in conflict zones, uncovers how war and violence reshape a fundamental aspect of human culture: what and how we eat. Moving between refugee camps, diasporic kitchens, and war-torn cities, Shaikh reveals the quiet heroism of home cooks who fight to preserve ancestral recipes as acts of survival, memory, and defiance. Part memoir, part travelogue, part cookbook, The Last Sweet Bite is also an account of how the history of violence is recorded in kitchens.
Joining Michael at Clio's is Bryant Terry, James Beard Award winning author and editor of The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025, a collection to remind us that food and travel are as much about remembrance, resistance, and connection as they are about sustenance or movement. In conversation with anthropologist Cari Borja, they will explore how food functions as an archive of ideas, a carrier of culture, and a site of both rupture and repair. This evening is not just about cuisine, it is about the power of food to gather us and bind us and remind us who we are.
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The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 is a collection of the year’s top food and travel writing. As guest editor, Bryant selected the best twenty pieces published in 2024 that celebrate and explore how food and travel shape our culture.
Pre-order here
Bryant will be delivering a keynote at Virginia Commonwealth University. More information coming soon.
Join bryant for an intimate celebration beneath the lights of Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall honoring David Kelley's five decades at Stanford. he will be 1 of a dozen artists who will reflect on Kelley's transformative creative philosophies and showcase how they continue to shape how many people think, create, and design. This performance-based event will be followed by a cocktail reception.
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Join Bryant at Book Passage for an author event in celebration of Miyoko Schinner's new book The Vegan Creamery: Plant-Based Cheese, Milk, Ice Cream, and More (A Cookbook)!
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