Artists Monica Jahan Bose and Autumn Spears invite you to share a meal prepared by them—bringing together unique flavors from each of their families’ heritages and culinary traditions—and to join them in conversation about their first major collaboration, Braids & Threads: Connecting Legacies (on view through March 8).

Palestinian-American artist Adam Chamy will join Bose and Spears in cooking and conversation, as together they explore how weaving inherited knowledge into contemporary work can promote resilience. You are welcome to bring dessert to share (but not required).

This FREE event will take place on Sunday, February 8, 2026 from 6-8pm at Eaton House (1203 K St NW, Washington, DC 20005). Space is limited. RSVP is required.

Meet the Guest Artist

Adam Chamy creates layered, expressionist works that move between national narrative and dream-like personal visions. Drawing on mystic archetypes—the truth-teller, the prophet, the outlaw—his practice blends painting, collage, and text into palimpsest-like surfaces that translate the sacred and the everyday, the theatrical and the intimate. From spare watercolors to dense, maximalist portraits, his work searches for the spaces where fable, politics, and imagination converge.

His practice spans mixed media painting, writing, and architecture – always in service of his unique otherworldly, intersectional Palestinian-American voice. Chamy’s work has exhibited at the United Nations East Gallery, Museo del Brigantaggio (Italy), and the al-Quds Gallery, and toured nationally with UNRWA USA and photojournalist Motaz Azaiza. His solo exhibition, Of Refuge, Of Home – focused on narratives from his Palestinian-Texan heritage and was featured by NPR and The Washington Post. He received the 2023 Half-Light Press Short Story Prize for The Two Halves House, a magical-realist parable exploring national borders and family myth-making. As an architect with Cunningham Quill, Chamy has contributed to multiple AIA award-winning projects, including the adaptive reuse of the historic St. Elizabeths asylum into affordable housing and Canal Window – the reimagining of a rowhouse into a investment bank along the C&O Canal.