Artist Bisa Butler and her husband, a longtime DJ, chose this selection of songs to pair with each of her quilts as well as other works from the museum’s collection, all of which are on view in Bisa Butler: Portraits .
Find the full Spotify playlist here .
Bisa Butler. Cavigga Family Trust Foundation. © Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler. Dimmitt Davies Collection. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Four Little Girls , September 15, 1963 , 2018
Bisa Butler. Michelle and Pete Scantland. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler. Collection of Scott and Cissy Wolfe. © Bisa Butler. Photo by Margaret Fox
Romare Howard Bearden
Bisa Butler. Private collection. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler. Collection of Bob and Jane Clark. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund, 2019.45. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Black Star Family, First Class Tickets to Liberia , 2018
Bisa Butler. Private collection, courtesy of William Shearburn Gallery. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Africa, the Land of Hope and Promise for Negro Peoples of the World , 2020
Bisa Butler. Private collection. Image courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery. © Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler. Private collection. Image courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery. © Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler. Michelle and Pete Scantland. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks
I Am Not Your Negro , 2019
Bisa Butler. Claire Oliver and Ian Rubinstein. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Nelson Stevens
Francis and Violette , 2001
Bisa Butler. Collection of Zachary Yamba. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Romare Howard Bearden
One Vote Can Change the World , 2008
Bisa Butler. Collection of Zachary Yamba. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Barbara Jones
Southside Sunday Morning , 2018
Bisa Butler. Private collection. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , 2019
Bisa Butler. Minneapolis Institute of Art, promised gift on long-term loan from a private collection. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler. Collection of Bonnie Lautenberg. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler. Private collection. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler. Claire Oliver and Ian Rubinstein. Photo by Ian Rubinstein. © Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler. Beth Rudin DeWoody. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler. Courtesy of Love, Luck & Faith Foundation. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler
Faith Ringgold
Bisa Butler. Collection of Audry X. Casusol. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler