Description /
The TABLES Project explores the table as both a symbolic and functional site of gathering, ritual, and exchange. Rather than focusing on the production of dining furniture, the project emphasizes the cultural and familial practices that emerge around the table—moments of communion, storytelling, nourishment, and care.
Launching in 2025, the program convenes a small group each week to reflect on family, food, culture, and love. These conversations inform the design and construction of wooden tables for participants’ homes. The resulting objects are both functional and symbolic: places of daily use as well as touchstones for reimagining how intentional gatherings can strengthen households.
The tables also serve as central elements in a photo-based campaign designed to inspire broader audiences to view the home as a site of sanctuary, education, and connection.
TABLES Project is led by Chicago-based artist and educator Nathan Miller, whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, writing, woodworking, and public installation.
Participants /
Linda Kimbrough, Chevveria Stevens, Demaurus Stevens, and Christopher Willis
The TABLES Project explores the table as both a symbolic and functional site of gathering, ritual, and exchange. Rather than focusing on the production of dining furniture, the project emphasizes the cultural and familial practices that emerge around the table—moments of communion, storytelling, nourishment, and care.
Launching in 2025, the program convenes a small group each week to reflect on family, food, culture, and love. These conversations inform the design and construction of wooden tables for participants’ homes. The resulting objects are both functional and symbolic: places of daily use as well as touchstones for reimagining how intentional gatherings can strengthen households.
The tables also serve as central elements in a photo-based campaign designed to inspire broader audiences to view the home as a site of sanctuary, education, and connection.
TABLES Project is led by Chicago-based artist and educator Nathan Miller, whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, writing, woodworking, and public installation.
Participants /
Linda Kimbrough, Chevveria Stevens, Demaurus Stevens, and Christopher Willis