Eating At the Same Table (EAST) is an artist-led support network which prioritises emerging artists of colour. Founded in September 2017 by multidisciplinary artist Rochelle White and Bold Everywhere’s Director, Sasha Morgan, the network has 19 core associates working across curation, education, visual arts, writing and design, as they work to offer the grass roots support, guidance and alternative modes of arts education creatives need as they navigate an art world that can often seem all too intimidating to the uninitiated.
Led by Rochelle White, this is a network in which a bespoke set of personal and professional relationships can flourish between the emerging and the established. We have cultivated and facilitated over 25 inclusive, progressive spaces through heuristic community-based arts practice, collaboration and programming. This involves multimodal methods which combines drawing, listening and painting, touching, smelling and in many cases, eating. We have hosted pot-lucks, exhibition and studio trips, film screenings, jazz-painting workshops and critical reading groups followed by discussions, designed in ways where everybody’s voice is heard. The programme has been tailored to facilitate the individual needs of its artists and those alike, with EAST’s inaugural Phantasy Art School inviting over 150 guests across the Black Atlantic to our all-day arts symposium.
EAST hosted its final iteration in December 2020.
To contact EAST, email us at info@east-now.org and follow us to see more on Instagram