The Art of Black Creole Cooking: A Cooking Demonstration by Chef Jazz Holmes

Jazz Holmes is both an accomplished fine artist and chef. Her mixed media paintings bring representation to the historic tapestry of cultural foodways within Black American society. She treats food as both archive and inheritance: a living record of agricultural labor, ancestral knowledge, and cultural survival. Her art reflects the essential relationship between people and the land, honoring the hands that cultivated, harvested, cooked, preserved, and transformed nourishment into tradition.
We are delighted to host an evening with Jazz Holmes as she brings her perspectives on food from the canvas to the kitchen with a lecture and cooking demonstration on Black Creole Cuisine. Please join us for a cultural conversation and a bit of good food.
Jazz identifies as Creole from Louisiana, whose family roots also include Afro-Panamanian, Gullah (African descendants in the coastal regions of the southern United States), Bajan (people from Barbados), and Caribbean ancestry. Her paintings reflect this mixture of ancestral influences, as does her other passion – cooking.
Free – (suggested donation $5)
SEATING IS LIMITED. Email: [email protected] TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE
*Dishes prepared with pork and peanut oil