EAT/ART space is a private pop-up gallery from a dining room in Appalachia.
Our vision: to create opportunities for emerging and established artists to exhibit and sell their work while showcasing local food culture in an innovative alternative venue.
EAT/ART space is a community project established in response to the closures & loss of opportunities during the pandemic. Since then, this intimate space opened to the public to give new and emerging visual artists a platform to display and talk about their work.
Run for artists, by an artist, the goal for this space is incubate artists by keeping commission fees low so that new and emerging artists have a place in the creative ecosystem.
Through virtual exhibitions with live artist talks + Q&A, EAT/ART space celebrates the small and hyper-local ways of art and food.
based in Johnson City, Tennessee, on S’atsoyaha (Yuchi) and ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East) land
“‘An all-around cool thing:’ Virtual gallery highlights local artists, food vendors,”
Johnson City Press, August 5, 2020.
“Artist uses home as virtual gallery for others,”
A! Magazine for the Arts, December 30, 2020.
“Virtual gallery EAT/ART Space founder looks to keep momentum going,”
Johnson City Press, April 6, 2021.
Gratitude to our star donors:
Karlota Contreras-Koterbay
Melissa Hite
Waymakers Collective