Michelle Glass and David Roy combined social practice and photographic skills in their Inglewood Senior Center residency project. Inglewood Heritage Cooking, their public art cookbook, combines family recipes and histories into a tasty civic portrait.

Inglewood’s community emerges within the recipe for Texas home garden vegetable sides and local game; fresh fish caught in the Virgin Islands; sun-drying Alabama pecans, Filipino adobo spice mix and New York brisket. Reminisces include a working mom with hungry children, a misbehaving brother shirking field work and a home where leftovers were never wasted. The book is in the Inglewood Public Library Special Collections.

Michelle Glass is a public and community artist empowering underserved populations. A noted social practitioner, she co-led DeColores: Community Story Project in Arvin, California with collaborator Hataya Tubtim. Ms. Glass created the participatory Flower Chain public art for Inglewood’s Darby Park in 2016. Her practice is located in Ventura, CA.

David Roy is a photographer and installation artist working with social justice, rocketry and international collaboration. His work was exhibited in the CalTrans Museum and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and at a solo exhibition at Inglewood’s Mandujano/Cell Gallery. Mr. Roy was raised and maintains his studio in Inglewood.

Date: 2018
Collection: City of Inglewood Time-Based Projects
Medium: Social practice and photography
Material: Spiral bound book
Size: 36 pages

Location:
Inglewood Senior Center
111 N. Locust Street
Inglewood, California 90301