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Butter, a fine arts fair for Black artists, is spotlighting art, supporting creatives, and keeping important discourse alive.

Butter, a fine arts fair for Black artists, is spotlighting art, supporting creatives, and keeping important discourse alive.

The cultural development group GANGGANG, which launched the event in 2021, expects more than 8,000 people to attend this year’s Butter. The groups goal is to sell or loan all of the artwork and give all of the proceeds back to the artists.

As Hoosiers and more swarm the city to get a taste of BUTTER, the Recorder sat down with a few of the exhibiting artists to get an idea of what to expect from the third iteration of the Midwest’s only Black Fine Art Fair. 

The Black fine arts fair was created in 2021 to uplift Indy’s Black visual artists and introduce a new blueprint for equity in the arts.

Cultural firm GangGang and concert company Forty5 unveiled plans for I Made Rock ’N’ Roll during a Rock the Ruins show in Holliday Park on Friday night. Organizers said the festival will be the first of its kind in the United States.

GANGGANG, a cultural development and creative advocacy firm, has announced the upcoming BUTTER fine art fair from Aug. 31 - Sept. 3.

IBJ Media on Thursday released its second annual Indiana 250, a list of the state’s most influential and impactful business and community leaders.

INDIANAPOLIS — In an attempt to make downtown more friendly to walkers, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett announced Wednesday that vehicular traffic will be prohibited on a couple of busy streets. “From July 8 to November 2, the southwest corner of Monument Circle will transform into a pedestrian-only parkway,” said Hogsett during an appearance on the […]

Inside a former car factory, some 8,000 visitors to a local art fair strolled among two halls of work by Black artists, including a glittering Bob Mar