Artist Bisa Butler has been called a modern-day Griot. But instead of using words to tell stories, she uses stitches and cloth. Her quilts have graced the covers of magazines, and she created the ...
Inspired by iconic black and white photos, Bisa Butler has created life-size portraits of African Americans in quilts that explode with color. The... Bisa Butler's Quilts Feature Designs So Realistic ...
Bisa Butler’s intricate portrait quilts are often based on found black-and-white photographs of Black people—some famous, some anonymous, some familial. The New Jersey-based artist can spend thousands ...
NEWARK, N.J. -- As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, CBS2's Maurice DuBois met Bisa Butler, an artist who's elevated quilt making to the walls of some of our finest museums. She does it at ...
Bisa Butler’s quilted portraits are redefining what is accepted and excepted within the walls of art museums. Butler‘s unmistakable visuals forever obliterate any notion of quilting merely as “craft.” ...
Getting “Bisa Butler: Portraits” before the public has been a struggle against COVID-19 from the start. Days before the exhibition of the artist’s extraordinary and ebullient quilted portraits of ...
Bisa Butler is an artist who makes quilts that are so finely detailed they look like paintings. Some art watchers say her Technicolor portraits of Black people are transforming the entire medium of ...
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