Photo by Monica Orozco
The next in our special series of shared meals and collaborative gatherings using tableware from the Common Ground installation, Lisa Kyung Gross, founder of The League of Kitchens, will share how immigrant women’s culinary traditions build bridges across communities. Together, we’ll gather around the table to honor the power of women’s stories, flavors, and resilience.
Date and Time
Tuesday, July 15, 6:30 pm
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About the Program
Use tableware from the Common Ground installation and connect with fellow diners as you take part in an interactive culinary journey celebrating women’s strength, creativity, and cultural heritage through food. As its title suggests, Common Ground is a community-activated artwork that celebrates American pluralism while also fostering human connection through shared meals and other collaborative gatherings.
Leading the dialogue is Lisa Kyung Gross, founder of The League of Kitchens, who will share how immigrant women’s culinary traditions build bridges across communities, along with KCRW's Good Food host, Evan Kleiman. Together, we’ll gather around the table to honor the power of women’s stories, flavors, and resilience.
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As a set menu, substitutions are not available.
About Common Ground
Los Angeles–based artist Adam Silverman collected clay, water, and wood ash from all fifty American states, Washington, DC, and the five inhabited US Territories and combined them to create a set of tableware and ceremonial pots. The resulting 224 ceramic objects, titled Common Ground, is a community-activated artwork that celebrates American pluralism while also fostering human connection through shared meals and collaborative installations.
About the Participants
Lisa Kyung Gross
Founder/CEO, The League of Kitchens
As the daughter of a Korean immigrant and a Jewish New Yorker, Lisa was raised on one grandmother's denjang-guk and the other's matzo ball soup. The League of Kitchens is borne out of her passion for New York City, her love of cooking, and her connection to the immigrant experience. Lisa's projects as an artist, educator, and social entrepreneur create opportunities for learning, connection, and multi-sensory engagement. She received her MFA in participatory public art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and has a BA from Yale University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
Chef and cookbook author Evan Kleiman is the longtime host of KCRW's Good Food.
For more on Common Ground and artist Adam Silverman, click here.
Related Exhibition
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Common Ground
On view through January 4, 2026
