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Susan Edwards Prepares Frist Exit Executive director and CEO took over museum in 2004 Tweet Share Photo: Eric EnglandSusan Edwards, the executive director and CEO of the Frist Art Museum since 2004, has told the downtown institution’s board of trustees she will retire in the coming year. “As the Frist is always in a state of becoming, it is difficult to pinpoint a good moment to step down,” Edwards says in a statement. “During our 20th anniversary year, it seems an opportune moment to transition to the next generation of leadership. Serving the community, the mission, and the field in this position has been rewarding on every level. I remain ever grateful.” ....
Former Educator Celebrates the Black Experience, Becomes In-Demand Quilter With a Show at the Art Institute of Chicago 1656 Caption Bisa Butler earned a BFA from Howard University, then her MA from Montclair State University, but she later shift her focus to quiltmaking. Credit- Instagram Art can teach, inform, inspire or soothe a troubled soul. It can elicit a gamut of emotions. A world with no art would be a world void of excitement, full of dullness. But for some art forms, such as quilting, an additional purpose was tied to a visual aspect. A Chicago Tribune article written years ago reminds us that the history of African American women in quilting is almost as old as the U.S. Therein, it was stated that quilts were made from scraps of fabric, and crafted for everyday use, during and after the Civil War. ....
Katonah Museum of Arts Presents Himmel Award to Darren Walker tapinto.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tapinto.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bisa Butler in the studio. Photography by John Butler. Bisa Butler’s intricate portrait quilts are often based on found black-and-white photographs of Black people some famous, some anonymous, some familial. The New Jersey-based artist can spend thousands of hours translating these photographs into meticulously dazzling images. The process, Butler says, is akin to pulling her subjects out of the past and into life today; as she works, she wonders what these people were like. What did they sound like? What made them tick? While Butler has been making quilts since the mid-’90s, the past year has proven a watershed moment for the 47-year-old artist. Though long delayed by the pandemic, an exhibition of her portraits has just opened at New York’s Katonah Museum and is already a critical hit. Another solo show her most prominent outing to date is on view now at the Art Institute of Chicago, featuring 20 of her luminous, multi-layered fabric portraits. ....
Celebrate '#SlowArtDay' with the Katonah Museum of Art hamlethub.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hamlethub.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.