SAAM’s digital reality museum apps present a number of unique and immersive experiences. Explore the past, current, and future with fiber artist Bisa Butler. Learn how familial, instructional, and societal influences inspire her to mix the road between art and craft. Butler is understood for creating monumental quilted portraits of Black life and cultural identification with hanging originality that share multilayered historic meanings and tales. Discover how Butler’s matrilineal sewing legacy, patrilineal Ghanaian roots, and the AfriCOBRA art movement resonate in her inventive quilting approach. Some artists tried to create an accurate document of a time or place in the…
- 10/12/2024
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