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Pinch of Salt: Handwriting, Heritage & Recipes

  • Museum of Design Atlanta 1315 Peachtree Street Northeast Atlanta, GA, 30309 United States (map)

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A recipe card with a coffee stain. A grandmother's looping cursive in the margin of a cookbook. The words "add salt to taste," written by a hand that knew exactly how much salt that meant.

Recipes carry more than instructions. They hold memory and ritual. They are physical artifacts of the people who passed them down.

In this hands-on workshop, cursive artist and educator Stef Alicia McCalmon leads participants through the relationship between handwriting, food, heritage, and design. You'll reflect on recipes as personal archives and create a handwritten recipe keepsake using lettering and mixed materials.

What to Expect:

  • Arrive at 5:30 PM to see the latest exhibition. Event begins promptly at 6:15 PM.

  • Explore recipes as objects of cultural and personal memory

  • Engage in guided handwriting and storytelling prompts

  • Experiment with cursive, annotation, and personal visual language

  • Create a handcrafted recipe artifact to take home

Participants are encouraged to bring handwritten family recipes, cookbook pages, or kitchen notes with character, stains, scribbles, and all.


Registration

$26.25 for MODA Members | $35 for Future Members

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About Stef Alicia McCalmon

Stef Alicia McCalmon, the force behind susielightyear studio, is a cursive artist and educator. She creates home and office goods that feature her signature handwritten flair inherited from her mother and maternal grandmother. Her products are invitations to be present with your personal, communal, cultural, and spiritual moments. She creates content and facilitates workshops to make cursive education more accessible. 

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