The Canvas

Bisa Butler and the Legacy of AfriCOBRA with Suzanne Roberts

Written by Dr. Jennifer Awes Freeman | Aug 4, 2021 12:31:35 AM

Bisa Butler in the studio. Photography by John Butler.

On March 9, 2021, Suzanne Roberts, local art historian and lecturer of African American artists, shared with the Arts Lunch about Bisa Butler and the history and resurgence of the AfriCOBRA movement in recent times, using CoolAde color and other techniques to consciously subscribe a non-western approach to art.