Bisa Butler: You’re All I Need: Quilted Portraits of Love, Resistance and Self-Determination
2/15/2025 10 AM-11:15 AM PST
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
Please join us at the museum or virtually.
Through her dynamic, celebratory quilted portraits of people of African decent , Bisa Butler (b. 1973, Orange, NJ) investigates the purposes and potential of portraiture within the Black historical narrative. Butler’s influences range widely from personal family scrapbooks to American folk traditions and AfriCOBRA philosophies. Although her finished works are made entirely of textiles, Butler approaches the medium from a painterly perspective.
The presentation will take place in the Koret Auditorium at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Attendance in person is free.
Eventbrite tickets are for those who cannot attend in person and would like to view the live Zoom broadcast. A recording will be available for 14 days following the talk.Textile Arts Council Members: You do NOT need to purchase a ticket, your link will be emailed to you.
Find more information online here.
Image:
All Power To The People (after Man with Afro, San Francisco, California, by Leon A. Borensztein, 1984) , 2023
Printed cotton, printed synthetic, synthetic lamé, cotton velvet, synthetic net, vinyl; quilted and appliquéd 114 x 67 in. (289.561 x 170.18 cm).
Museum purchase, Textile Art Trust Fund and donations from Bettina S. Bryant, Joyce Dostale, and other textile arts supporters 2023.65.
©️ Bisa Butler. Photograph by Randy Dodson, courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco