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The storytelling power of quilting is being celebrated through the latest exhibition crafted by artist Bisa Butler. Titled The World Is Yours is Butler’s beautiful collection of quilts. The show is ...

It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but perhaps its true reflection is best illuminated within the essence of our being–radiating outward as subtle aesthetics alone struggle to ...

Brilliantly colored and full of visual drama, Bisa Butler’s larger-than-life sized quilted portraits are nearly indistinguishable from paintings. Creating works that have appeared on the cover of Time ...

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Bisa Butler’s new show translates both photographs of Black figures and hip-hop lyrics into intricate textile art. Credit... Supported by Text by Joshua Needelman Photographs and Video by Sasha ...

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 ...

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.” ...