Dinner With Friends: Harvest Dinner

Chef Elena Terry | Madison | Tall Grass at MMoCA + Wild Bearies
Elena brings together the chefs, food, and relationships at the heart of the first Dinner With Friends.

Chef Tawnya Brant | Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario | Yawekon
Chef and owner of Yawekon, Brant appeared on Top Chef Canada Season X and hosts the One Dish series on APTN.

Chef Lightning New Rider | Wisconsin Dells | Deep in the Woods
A lifelong cook specializing in traditional First Nations foods and vegetarian cuisine.

Chef Greg Leon | Milwaukee | Amilinda
Chef and owner of Amilinda, Leon was a James Beard Foundation Best Chef: Midwest finalist in 2022 and 2023 and an Outstanding Chef semifinalist in 2024 and 2025.

Chef Bryce Stevenson | Milwaukee | Miijim / Odd Duck
Chef and owner of Miijim and currently at Odd Duck, Stevenson brings experience in Indigenous cuisine and fine dining.

Chef Montgomery Green Jr. | Black River Falls | Wild Bearies
A Wild Bearies chef apprentice since 2023, Green also serves as a Veteran Advocate for the Ho-Chunk Nation.

Chef Brian Yazzie | Minneapolis | Yazzie the Chef / Intertribal Foodways
Yazzie is the chef behind Yazzie the Chef and owner of Intertribal Foodways and is known for his Indigenous cooking. His work has been featured on Padma Lakshmi’s Taste the Nation.

Chef Ashley Turner | Milwaukee | Belle Starr BBQ / Milwaukee County Zoo
Chef and owner of Belle Starr BBQ and Executive Chef at the Milwaukee County Zoo, Turner is known for Texas-style barbecue and has competed on Food Network’s BBQ Brawl and Chopped.

Chef Anne Thundercloud | Black River Falls | Wild Bearies
A Wild Bearies chef apprentice since 2020, Thundercloud brings a lifetime of cooking experience, including cooking for tribal gatherings.

Dinner With Friends is a new Tall Grass series built around the relationships that grow around food.

Chef Elena Terry will invite chefs, growers, makers, artists, and friends to cook together, exchange ideas, and introduce their work to new audiences.

Each dinner will be different because each friendship is different.

The Harvest Dinner also offers an early look at the relationship between Tall Grass and MMoCA.

Tall Grass is being created as a new restaurant at MMoCA and a new way to gather at the Museum—around food, art, ideas, and one another. Like MMoCA’s exhibitions and programs, its culinary program creates opportunities for creative practitioners to share their work and for audiences to encounter new perspectives.

The Harvest Dinner brings that idea to life before the restaurant itself opens.

Proceeds from the Harvest Dinner support MMoCA’s commitment to remaining admission-free and to presenting ambitious exhibitions, programs, and experiences for our community.

Your presence makes you part of the beginning of Tall Grass. Your support of the Harvest Dinner supports MMoCA.

Guests will also have an opportunity to participate in a small silent auction during the evening.

The dinner will conclude with a live auction for a private dinner at MMoCA for up to 25 people, curated and prepared by Chef Elena Terry.