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The third annual BUTTER Art Fair, which featured 49 artists, four galleries and six curators, raised nearly $300,000 in sales. Four major institutions acquired pieces for their permanent collections. Invited for the second time to the fair held annually in Indianapolis, Indiana, Dame Dash didn’t have to think twice about attending. As curator of DD172, […]

Butter, an event that requires no fees paid by artists and collects no commissions on sales, displayed work by 49 Black 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. 

It was a packed house the night of July 29 at The Jean McDonough Arts Center, as fans of hip-hop flocked to see the premiere “Wortown Rising.”

Many Hoosiers are likely familiar with the Black Lives Matter mural painted on Indiana Avenue in 2020 — and unfortunately destroyed seven days later — that led to the creation of the Eighteen Art Collective.