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About Bisa Butler. Upcoming Exhibitions. Materfamilias
Bisa Butler (born Mailissa Yamba Butler in 1973) is an American fiber artist who has created a new genre of quilting that has transformed the medium. Although quilting has long been considered a craft, her interdisciplinary methods—which create quilts that look like paintings—have catapulted quilting into the field of fine art.
Bisa Butler was born in Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of a college president and a French teacher. She was raised in South Orange as the youngest of four siblings. Butler’s artistic talent was first recognized at the age of four, when she won a blue ribbon in an art competition. Formally trained, Butler graduated Cum Laude from Howard ...
A portrait in progress at fiber artist Bisa Butler’s studio in New Jersey. “There’s zero paint,” she says. Celeste Sloman. Her largest quilt to date, completed in 2022 and measuring 9 by ...
Bisa Butler: Portraits is the first solo museum exhibition of the artist’s work and will include over 20 portraits. Produced by Sok Vision Although Butler’s finished works are exclusively fabric, her methods remain interdisciplinary: photographs inform her compositions and figural choices, she layers fabrics as a painter might layer glazes ...
Bisa Butler, 2020. Photograph by John Butler. Courtesy of Bisa and John Butler. Also known as. Mailissa Yamba Butler. Date of birth. 1973. Bisa Butler creates arresting portraits—composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics—that reimagine and celebrate narratives of Black life. Butler often works with photographs as source ...
