Pinch of Salt: Handwriting, Heritage & Recipes
with Stef Alicia
Recipes hold more than ingredients. Handwritten notes, folded index cards, and directions like “add salt to taste” preserve memory, ritual, and care across generations.
In this hands-on workshop, led by renowned cursive artist and educator Stef Alicia McCalmon you’ll explore the relationship between handwriting, food, heritage, and design through storytelling and making. Participants will reflect on recipes as personal archives while creating a handwritten recipe keepsake using lettering and mixed materials.
What to Expect:
Arrive at 5:30pm to explore MODA’s current exhibition
Explore recipes as objects of design and cultural 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.
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.
Registration: $35 | $26.25 for MODA members
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The Fine Print
Accessibility: Designers with different styles of learning or special needs are welcome in MODA public programs. We will be able to most effectively help everyone learn and enjoy this experience if we know about those needs in advance of the program. Please email miranda@museumofdesign.org with questions or information.
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