Krystal C. Mack

Baltimore

Krystal C. Mack is a self-taught designer and artist using her social practice to highlight food and nature’s role in collective healing, empowerment, and decolonization. Through comestible and social design, Krystal seeks to publicly unpack and heal personal traumas relevant to her lived experience as a disabled Black woman. With her practice, she conceptualizes and constructs spaces and objects that invite the community to engage with food and the natural world in multi-dimensional ways that elicit a sensory call and response, acting as a transformative tool for all. Krystal began her practice as a chef and now approaches this work as a food designer, social practice artist, and herbalist, maintaining regard for African diasporic foodways and following the intuitive ancestral wisdom of the Earth.