AMY ART ON EATOCRACY, CNN's FOOD BLOG!

Fellow MICA alumna Kat Kinsman is responsible for this awesomeness. We've known each other through the SFA for a while but only just discovered that we went to art school together--ahem--20 years ago.

From Eatocracy:

We get food crushes sometimes…This time it's Amy Evans Streeter, who we'd always known as the oral historian for the Southern Foodways Alliance. In this capacity, she oversees the organization's efforts to record and archive interviews with Southerners who grow, create, serve, and consume food and drink, so their words and wisdom are preserved for future generations.

That would be reason enough to adore her, but as it happens, she's also an exceptionally gifted painter who, naturally, uses food as the nexus of many of her visual narratives. Her work documents small, intimate histories of characters who we'll never actually meet, but we certainly know the likes of. Read more...

Thanks, Kat!