Introducing Our Newest Collaborators
Recipes for Resilience Questionnaire
The New Orleans African American Museum is proud to announce our newest collaborators: Them People Productions- a multidisciplinary creative house based in New Orleans, known for curating immersive experiences that uplift Black culture, memory, and imagination.
Recipes for Resilience is a powerful tribute to the culinary traditions that have sustained generations of African Americans through struggle, joy, migration, and movement-building. The 2026-2027 NOAAM incubation will explore how food has been used not only as nourishment but as resistance—fueling everything from Civil Rights protests to front porch teach-ins, neighborhood barbecues and global diasporic exchanges.
Recipes for Resilience will unfold as an immersive and interactive exhibit that invites museum visitors to reflect on the political and cultural power of African American foodways. Through a blend of storytelling, archival media, visual art, and curated dining installations, the incubation will honor the legacy of Black chefs, farmers, kitchen table strategists, and memory keepers who have used food as a way to build community and protect culture. Guests will be able to contribute their own food stories, explore a community-crafted cookbook-in-progress, and engage in workshops & special events throughout the incubation like the Politicking Potluck, the Diaspora Diner, and the Interactive Cooking Lab which will further deepen the connections between personal memory and collective liberation.
Recipes for Resilience will also examine how the act of cooking, sharing, and feeding has become a radical form of care, survival, and joy.
This collaboration begins with an activation during our SATURDAYS @ NOAAM signature program on Saturday— May 17, 2025. Them People will feature a daylong screening of the acclaimed Netflix docuseries High on the Hog, based on the book by Dr. Jessica B. Harris.
The screening will take place inside NOAAM’s Main Gallery.
Guests are also invited to enjoy a free outdoor cultural tasting activation with food provided by local staple- Lil Dizzy’s Cafe.
Join us in welcoming Them People Productions to NOAAM—and step into the kitchen of memory, resistance, and possibility.
NOAAM x Them People Productions
Recipes for Resilience: How the Culinary Arts Fuel the Fight for Black Liberation
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Husband and wife duo Nate Cameron Jr. and Krystle Sims-Cameron are native New Orleanians, cultural curators, performing artists, and dedicated advocates for a city that honors its culture bearers as essential architects of the future. Through their work with Them People Productions, they blend storytelling, performance, and public programming to cultivate spaces where Black creativity, memory, and imagination are centered.
Them People is more than a production company—they are cultural storytellers, memory keepers, and creative strategists rooted in the traditions of the African diaspora. With a distinct focus on food, land, music, and ritual, they work across mediums to design public programming, exhibitions, and experiences that center Black folks as authors and architects of their own legacies.
From backyard herb gardens to music festivals, film screenings to zine workshops, Them People operates at the intersection of grassroots community building and cultural production. Their mission is clear: to imagine and co-create liberatory Black futures by celebrating the people, practices, and places that continue to shape them.
Together, Nate and Krystle envision a New Orleans that not only celebrates its artistic and ancestral roots, but actively supports those who steward them. Their commitment to building experiences rooted in liberation, joy, and community care shines through in every aspect of Recipes for Resilience—a project that reflects their deep belief in the transformative power of food, culture, and collective memory.