Krystal C. Mack

Bio

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, Mack seeks to publicly unpack and heal personal traumas relevant to her lived experience as an Autistic Black woman. A critical element of her work involves the exploration of food and nature beyond the limits of traditional consumption. Krystal uses food design to construct spaces for dialogue and inquiry into the cultivation, or lack thereof, of sustainable and accessible practices supporting or hindering reparative futures for marginalized communities. With her practice, she creates 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.