The highly anticipated BUTTER Fine Art Fair has unveiled its 2024 programme, featuring a diverse range of artwork, live music, dance performances, poetry, DJ sets, custom merchandising and food trucks. Local, national and international guests will deliver expert talks on stage and the Kids’ Zone will ensure a family-friendly event from 29 August to 1 September.
Conversation Cove hosts hourly Q&A sessions with artists. Here are the highlights:
Friday, August 30
12:30 pm – Art Talk with Chris Rocket and Tumi Adeleye
13:00 – Art Talk with Asari Aibangbee
2:00 p.m. – In the Salon with author A’Lelia Bundles and artist Autumn Breon
3:00 p.m. – Art talk with Langston Allston
4:00 p.m. – BATTER Up! Featuring artist Micah Johnson and local organizer Jim Walker
4:30 p.m. – Art Talk with Cornelius Tulloch
5:30 p.m. – Art talk with Cortney Herron
6:00 p.m. – LA to Nap: Not Like Us with Mary Harris, Natou Fall and Isis Dua
7:00 p.m. – What I know about art with Kimberly Drew and Malina Simone Bacon
Saturday, August 31
10:00 am – Mastering The Canvas, a course by Mason Archie
13:00 – Art, Innovation & Culture with Pigment Magazine and Edo
2:00 p.m. – Curated With Love by BUTTER curators Nakeyta Moore, Kendall Hurns and
Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette
2:30 p.m. – Thinking, Reading and Speaking with Indiana Humanities
4:00 p.m. – Creating The New World with the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and
Ashley Nora
4:30 p.m. – A moment of peace, inspiring meditation with Manon
5:30pm – “Keeping It 1000 by 1000 Words” Gallery, with Chris Smith, Thank You, Theodore
and Rob Sloan
18:00 – Arte is a basic need with Eduardo Luna from Arte Mexicano en Indiana
7:00 p.m. – Fighting The Monolith with Scott Terry, owner of Mahogany Gallery
Sunday, September 1st
12:30 pm – Prescribing Art with IU Health
1:00 p.m. – The Art of Collecting with John Thompson and Alan Mills
3:00 p.m. – From the Mouths of Giants with D. Del Reverda-Jennings and Kevin Wilson
4:30 p.m. – Art Talk with Amani Tre Niner
Live performances will take place on the BUTTER Performance Stage. Here is the schedule:
Thursday, August 29
6:15 p.m. – Pork & Beans Brass Band
Friday, August 30
10:45 a.m. – Education Day performance by ukulele player Austin Dean Ashford
11:00 am – Tasha Jones
18:30 – Rusty & Kinetik
19:00 – SoundsByCam
8:00 p.m. – FOXD’LEGND
9:00 p.m. – SoundsByCam
Saturday, August 31
3:00 p.m. – Valerie Phelps
6:15 p.m. – BUTTER Jam Session with Mariah Ivey
8:15 p.m. – Brandon Lott
Sunday, September 1st
1:00 p.m. – Tom Foolery & The Laughing Stock
4:00 p.m. – The call
Walk and Talk tours, led by Sampson Levingston, return to BUTTER, taking guests on walking tours exploring historic Indiana Avenue.
Grapevine: Naptown’s Kickback for Local Jams is a new addition to BUTTER in the main exhibit hall on August 30. Grapevine will showcase a selection of the city’s retail brands and food trucks.
“We are excited to bring the energy of Grapevine to the city’s premier art fair,” said Nigel Long, Managing Director of GANGGANG and founder of Grapevine. “We are usually at Cleo’s Bodega every first Friday from May to October, but for exciting and impactful experiences like BUTTER we are happy to make exceptions.”
For more information about the founding organization GANGGANG, visit ganggangculture.com. For more information about BUTTER, visit butterartfair.com.
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