About
A Food Based Artist Residency
Baking Edition
Mostly Butter is a food based residency out of my apartment in Detroit, MI where we will bake, cook, and eat food together. Born out of my deep love for apple pie but overwhelming fear of messing up baking my favorite dessert, I want to provide an experience where it doesn’t have to be so scary. Often focused on nostalgia; this project focuses foods you haven’t eaten since childhood, ate during a trip and still think about, or an effort to recreate the treat you only ever bought at the store.
The first edition of Mostly Butter will be based on making baked goods, no prior baking knowledge necessary. This residency will be location in my apartment kitchen, which is cozy and small, therefore only individuals or groups of two may apply.
The Mostly Butter Residency is open to artists, writers, curators who has any interest in baking or learning how to bake. Individuals must apply with a specific baked good that they’ve always wanted to make but just never have and together, we will bake it. All dietary preferences welcome.
The cost of the residency is personal travel and half of the cost of ingredients beyond all-purpose flour, butter, eggs, salt, sugar, and baking powder or soda (or any excessive amounts of those ingredients). The residency will typically last a day but may be extended depending on the baked good chosen.
The residency will culminate in a snack sesh with a friend or three where we eat the food we made together.
TO APPLY
Please contact me at saraj.nishikawa@gmail.com telling me a bit about yourself and work, available times and dates, and what you’ve always wanted to bake
A small dog and two cats will be present ︎
*disclaimer* i am not a professional baker and my skills are limited! pastry school level technically complicated projects are discouraged.