October 2nd - November 15th 2026,

Grizzly Grizzly and the Burnt Asphalt Family present A Shared Table, a project connecting Philadelphia’s art and food ecosystems through site-responsive collaborations. Artists are paired with local food spaces—restaurants, markets, vendors, or culturally significant food spaces—developing work through direct exchange, whether by collaborating with practitioners or responding to the histories, labor, and sensory cultures embedded in these sites. Grizzly Grizzly serves as the central exhibition hub, hosting an evolving archive that maps these distributed partnerships. The installation functions as both document and index, using objects, images, and narratives to point audiences outward into the city. Rather than containing the work, it acts as a navigational system, framing Philadelphia itself as an extended exhibition space. In doing so, the project treats the city as both medium and collaborator, positioning art as something produced through active engagement with living cultural and economic networks.

ACTIVATION EVENT: OCTOBER 17th

On October 17 please join us for an activation event that brings together participating artists, food partners, and the public for an evening of shared experiences centered around food, art, and community.

About:

For nearly two decades, The Burnt Asphalt Family, co-founded by Erica Rosenfeld and Jessica Jane Julius,  has developed community-centered projects for galleries, public performances, celebrations, and fundraising events, using food and glass as connective materials that foster dialogue around ritual, cultural tradition, social structures, labor, and belonging. Their practice approaches art as a lived and communal act, where process remains visible and embodied, and where the shared table, studio, and hot shop become metaphors for community and transformation.

As an artist collective composed of independent artists, designers, makers, and educators their work is rooted in the cultural histories of glassmaking, cooking, and craft, to explore themes of labor, transformation, memory, and collective experience. Utilizing techniques including blown glass, neon, mixed media, food-based sculpture, and performative installation, to construct interactive works that invite audiences to become active participants in the making and unraveling of the piece itself. Often incorporating shared meals and edible sculptures, their installations evolve through acts of gathering, collaboration, deconstruction, and consumption, leaving behind sculptural remnants that function as artifacts of the experience.