Overview
Once a month, Tinworks will activate Gabriel Chaile’s commissioned oven sculpture, No puedo evitar la forma en que siento (I can’t help the way I feel), 2025, with a community baking event, led by Tinworks’ Bri Mango. Mango researches and recreates historic recipes, and offers a place of discussion to contemplate our evolved tastes due to ingredient and supply changes. Please join us for these special events of community engagement!
What's Cooking
Join us for a community meal of historic recipes selected by Tinworks’ Curatorial Assistant, Bri Mango.
About the Recipes
The bulk of the reason why I chose these recipes is that both succotash and jambalaya are dishes of resilience, adaptation and the endeavor of self recognition and self sufficiency.
Both jambalaya and succotash are dishes that evolved to fit the regions to which they were brought, with jambalaya having regional variations and succotash even more so. Almost every Indigenous nation that engaged in some degree of sedentary agriculture utilizing the three sisters system have some variation of succotash. Examples can be found all the way to the Caribbean and even French Guyana. As cultural exchange between African Americans, both enslaved and free, there developed specifically African diasporic succotash featuring okra. You'll even find succotash in Liberia these days, brought by Africans returning upon emancipation or sponsorship.
Special Event
Sunflower U-Pick
We invite the community to help us commemorate Agnes Denes’ Sunflowers—to follow the wheat. The sunflower field has brought a great deal of joy to the neighborhood, and as the growing season draws to a close, we hope you will cherish the winding paths through the field of flowers and pollinators with a token of our gratitude. While food is in the oven, visitors will be welcome to take a few flowers home.
Visitors are encouraged to limit their U-Pick bouquets to a manageable handful, as we look forward to the prospect of a re-seeded field while the continued activation of this green space is still under consideration for upcoming exhibition seasons.
This is a free experience, although donations are always welcome to help Tinworks continue to sustain our community efforts and accessibility.
Photo by Blair Speed, 2026.
