Current Display: Recetas para la Vida

Life lessons from your kitchen

Art Exhibition Dates: March 6 – June 5, 2025 | Casa Azafran Art Gallery

The Recetas para la Vida Project and Exhibition (Recipes for Life) utilizes photography, storytelling, and the art of cooking to explore the identities, histories, families, and stories of love of Nashville’s Latino community. Through this exhibition 20 Latino community members generously volunteered to share treasured recipes and life lessons they have learned from their kitchens. To create the exhibition, professional photographer Carlos Leiva, visited each participant in their home, business or community kitchen, to capture through photos, community members cooking a special dish and hear first-hand the wisdom these recetas have to offer us. 

The captions accompanying each portrait are the participants’ responses to the prompts: Share a treasured family recipe; what is a life lesson you learned in the kitchen? Discover what our participants shared with us and explore new recipes!

This project is made possible with funds from the Tennessee Arts Commission and Bonnaroo Works Fund.