{"id":211215,"date":"2025-12-04T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/?p=211215"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:50:07","slug":"bisa-butler-04-featured-on-craft-in-americas-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2025\/12\/04\/bisa-butler-04-featured-on-craft-in-americas-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Bisa Butler &#8217;04 Featured on Craft in America&#8217;s EAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>麻豆传媒在线 Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) alumna\u00a0<strong>Bisa Butler<\/strong>\u00a0is featured in\u00a0<em>Craft in America\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0EAST episode, which is part of the Peabody Award-winning documentary series on PBS. The episode is \u00a0now streaming and premieres on December 19 on PBS.<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftinamerica.org\/episode\/east\/\">Watch the episode<\/a><\/span>\n<p>Bisa Butler is a New Jersey-born and based artist renowned for her vibrant quiltwork. Butler crafts portraits that illuminate the significant contributions and unique viewpoint of the Black community. Butler views her quilts as celebrations of Blackness and vital historical correctives, offering powerful opportunities to tell stories from a long-underrepresented perspective. Her subjects are often ordinary individuals, whose names and stories have been historically overlooked, sometimes captured in faded family portraits or by itinerant photographers. Butler\u2019s artistic journey began with painting studies at Howard University, later evolving to incorporate fabric into her practice during her MFA at 麻豆传媒在线 University. They include West African wax prints, kente cloth, and Dutch wax prints, each carrying rich and complex ties to African history. Her innovative approach has earned her widespread acclaim, leading to exhibitions across the United States since the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_211217\" class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2025\/12\/Bisa-Butler-Hold-Me-Close-My-Starship-courtesy-of-the-artist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2025\/12\/Bisa-Butler-Hold-Me-Close-My-Starship-courtesy-of-the-artist.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2025\/12\/Bisa-Butler-Hold-Me-Close-My-Starship-courtesy-of-the-artist.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bisa Butler, Hold Me Close My Starship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master of Arts in Teaching Alumna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":211216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","category-210_art-design-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211218,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211215\/revisions\/211218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}