Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Bisa Butler
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2024
- On Friday, November 20, 2020, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) presented a virtual lecture featuring fiber artist Bisa Butler. Explore the past, present, and future and discusses how familial, educational, and societal influences Butler to blend the line between art and craft. Butler is known for creating monumental quilted portraits of Black life and cultural identity with striking originality that share multilayered historical meanings and stories. Learn more about how Butler’s matrilineal sewing legacy, patrilineal Ghanaian roots, and the AfriCOBRA art movement resonate in her inventive quilting technique. Butler also shares how the current Black Lives Matter cry for racial justice and COVID-19 have influenced her work as she looks to creating in the future.
This program is part of our annual Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art series, which presents new insights in American art from the perspectives of outstanding artists, critics, and scholars. The series is made possible by the generosity of Clarice Smith.
Awesome . She is beyond beauty and Grace which she portrays in her work.
Outstanding lecture! Bisa Butler is brilliant - a national treasure whose art work is spectacular.
Your quilts are a magnificent testament to the potential in the heart and mind of a child; especially of African American children who are allowed to dream freely. It took me a while to realize that your quilts were not actual paintings; the time and process you used blew my mind! I love your work and pray that you have done what is necessary to copyright your style and technique; they are unique to who you are and what is in your heart. Thank you for displaying your gift.
So appreciative of Bisa's willingness to share that very first piece. While it may be painful for her, I see a beautiful child worthy of just as much love as we easily give to her later works. The genius is already extant in that first piece.
This was lovely! So proud of Bison Bisa Butler!
This is so beautiful! I so enjoyed Bisa Butler's exhibit at the Katonah Museum - it's absolutely amazing. Love hearing the stories and seeing how her work has developed.
Awesome art. I cannot imagine doing this or how she does it so smoothly. Thank you for sharing your story and artwork with us.
I love what you are sharing. As a Art educator too, hearing about your creative evolution and your awakening to your vision and your work. I am so glad your work is being recognised. It is well deserved you really have refined your craft. Fabulous!!
Would love to learn your technique. Beautiful work !! I hope I can get the pleasure to see your art someday in person ! Come to Massachusetts someday.
Wonderful!!
Fantastic Bisa Butler!!!
So talented! I love this so much. Thank you for bringing this to us.
I am so impressed by not only her artwork but the thought that goes into it. It makes me proud to see the portraits of black people so beautifully done. I feel honored to see someone depicting black people in such a grand fashion. Keep up the great work. God bless. ♥️🙏🏾♥️🙏🏾😃
I just wanted to tell you that I love your work and that the type of fabric in your first collage that you didn't know the name of is Eyelet!
Thank you so much for the presentation! I really enjoyed learning about your process and would love to see your work in person, when we can! Also, do you do workshops on how to do that on a longarm?
Wonderful presentation! Such a talented artist.
I’m surprised Bisa doesn’t get fabric from India. I buy strips of silk from old saris, I also buy old kanthas to use in my artwork and of course, sari cotton by the metre. All reasonably priced.
The artwork is beautiful, and I loved hearing mostly about the process. I would like to see how you do the actual steps of cutting pieces of fabric, placement, and sewing. Are the edges raw or backed by some fusible web? Did you learn the process from anyone? I love the shading and different tones even just across the cheeks or forehead. Can’t wait to see the next progression.
I love love your work I'am a quilter but I have always loved fiber art , but I can not draw , can you give me some insite as how to draw my images ready for fiber art. or any help you can give.