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Joanna Underwood

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Recipient Information

Location

Nashville, Tennessee

Medium

Foodways

Year of Award

2026

Grant or Fellowship

Emerging Traditional Artists Program

Grant Amount

$5,000

Joanna Underwood grew up in a family of eleven where cooking was both a creative outlet and a necessity, shaping her lifelong relationship to food, land, and community. Since moving to East Tennessee, she has learned traditional foodways from her mother-in-law—preserving, farming, and cooking from the land—with the goal of living more sustainably and sharing these practices through education, storytelling, and community workshops.