Intersections Cutting Board (Charcuterie)

With lessons learned in Berea College’s women’s and gender studies program in mind, Sharon Ngassa ’21 led us on an exploration of intersectional feminism and the works of Berea’s own bell hooks. She gave homage to Berea’s Fifth Great Commitment to the kinship of all people and the Sixth to gender equality in the work of our woodshop.  

Based loosely on diagrams Sharon had seen in class depicting intersecting circles of color as a means of representing both the differences inside all of us and the need for that difference inside any healthy society, these charcuterie boards provide the opportunity for every student maker to customize each board creating a product as wonderfully unique as the individual student who made them.