Founded in 2009 by artist Linda Goode Bryant, Project EATS is a living installation transforming vacant lots and rooftops into neighborhood-based farms supporting farm stands, pantries, prepared food, and community programs to catalyze creativity and cultivate greater food sovereignty across New York City. Communities deserve to grow their own food right where they live–Art that feeds.

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Project EATS Notable Press: BK Reader; Food Management

Linda's decades of art-based activism began with her founding of Just Above Midtown gallery (JAM) which was a self-described laboratory that foregrounded the work of African-American artists including David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Butch Morris, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O’Grady, Howardena Pindell and many others. JAM’s explicit purpose was to be “in, but not of, the art world” offering early—and often unique—opportunities to artists to experiment and create freely, away from art market pressures. After closing JAM, Linda dedicated herself to filmmaking, directing the Peabody award-winning documentary Flag Wars (2003), an intimate portrait of a community in-flux that explores the tensions between preservation and gentrification. Over her nearly 50-year career, Linda has and continues to advocate for a connection to “our innate ability to use what we have to create what we need”.

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• HELP USA SEC
  111 Sunken Garden Loop
  Randall's (Ward's) Island
  Farm only location.

• The Crossing
  1956 1st Avenue
  East Harlem, New York
  Farm stand opening soon.

• Marcus Garvey Apartments
  353 Chester Street
  Brownsville, Brooklyn
  Farm stand
  Thu 12pm–5pm
  Food Distribution
  Fri 1–4pm

• Essex Crossing
  220 Broome Street
  Lower East Side, Manhattan
  Farm Stand and Eatery
  Wed–Sun 11am-7pm

• SBH Wellness Center
  4422 Third Avenue
  Belmont, Bronx
  Farm Stand
  Wed 11am–4pm
  Food Distribution
  Thu 1pm–4pm

Project EATS presents a series of artist commissions bringing art from inside museums and galleries and out into neighborhoods around New York City. The 2022–2023 commissions are presented in conjunction with the exhibition Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces at The Museum of Modern Art.

Just as artists at Just Above Midtown gallery were invited to push their artistic practices, take their creativity to new heights, and collaborate, this series of artist commissions enacts JAM in the present–inviting living artists who exhibited at the gallery during the 1970s and 1980s, as well as those who were influenced by its legacy and spirit later on, to create anew.

• David Hammons
  Concerto in Black and Blue (2002)
  Oct 3–Oct 30, 2022
  Billboards and Bus Shelters
  Brownsville, Brooklyn
  
  Nov 14–Dec 12, 2022
  Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan North Entrance
  Essex and Delancey St
  
  Nov 14–Dec 12, 2022
  CITI Field
  Shea Rd and Boat Basin Pl

• Maren Hassinger
  Industrial Nature
  Nov 14, 2022–Jan 1, 2023
  Essex Crossing Farm

• Arthur Jafa and
  Garrett Bradley
  A Negro, A Lim-o
  Winter 2022/Spring 2023
  Brownsville and
  Essex Crossing Farms

• Agafia Andreyev
  Seasonal Farmer

• Leah Asha Allen
  Director of Development

• Faye Bradshaw
  Senior Director of Operations

• Alexa Curnutte
  Seasonal Farmer

• Shevan Durant
  Administrator

• Shavar Elliot
  Seasonal Farmer

• Linda Goode Bryant
  Founder and President

• Marielle Ingram
  Special Projects Assistant

• Keith Jackson
  Seasonal Farmer

• Ronnie Jordan
  Seasonal Farmer

• Ariana Kazansky
  Seasonal Farmer

• Cathy Martinez
  Chef Assistant

• Jason Murphy
  Culinary & Product Manager

• Andrew Nasti
  Seasonal Farmer

• Jordan Paige
  Community Instructor

• Octavio Peralta
  Food Distribution Coordinator

• Adriana Perez
  Community Manager

• Hosny Youssef
  Community Resident Associate

• Jon Gilman
  Former Chef and Owner, Taste Caterers

• Korbin Heiss
  Board Treasurer
  SVP, Wells Fargo

• Liz Howng
  Global Finance People Agenda Lead,
  JP Morgan Chase

• Nilda Isidro
  Shareholder, GreenbergTraurig

• Marc Payot
  President, Hauser & Wirth

• Barry Rosen
  Board Chairman
  Artist Estate Advisor

• Harriet Sanford
  Board Secretary
  Former President & CEO, NEA Foundation

• Andrea Schwan
  PR & Image Building Consultant

• Lorna Simpson
  Visual Artist

• Veronique Tillinghast
  Executive Director, HR Benefits Design and Strategy
  JPMorgan Chase

• Sarah Workneh
  Co-Director, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture