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Just coming home from an inspiring few days in New Mexico.

-A moving conversation at @duende.gallery.galisteo between artists @tuwaletstiwa, @rosebsimpson, and @robertkingstudio, moderated by @jmeherrell

-“Abundance: New Acquisitions From 2016 to 2026,” elegantly and thoughtfully curated by @mkstatzer at @unm_art_museum in Albuquerque

-Visiting @radius.books, @newmexicoartmuseum, and the @museumofinternationalfolkart in Santa Fe

-Balloons, sunsets, and horses...

Very grateful for this life and to be part of such beautiful creative communities.

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Kinda chic to be an art historian & curator who authors scholarly texts for books, catalogues & artist monographs. Part 1.

*All credits in the posts.

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My new, hybrid speaker series with related book club is FRIENDS FORUM (Quaker funded 2026-28): Public historian TAD STOERMER, AUTHOR of A Resistance History of the United States (2026) that KIRKUS REVIEWS called “An inspiration for those fighting for democratic rights in the face of authoritarianism.”
•ZOOM Talk_REGISTER on LINK: https://forms.bhfh.org/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F55502
•LIVESTREAM: Falmouth Library, Falmouth MA

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On the set of “Islam’s Greatest Stories of Love” with one of my favorite artists in the world @ambreen.butt 😍 watch it now for FREE on YouTube worldwide!

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FREE EVENT

Thursday
July 23
7 PM CDT

Register Today

"Reserve your spot now. Link in bio. We'll see you July 23."

Art has always been one of history's most powerful forms of resistance.

Join internationally recognized artist Ambreen Butt for a moving conversation exploring grief, motherhood, resilience, and the role of women in resistance movements throughout history.

📅 Thursday, July 23
🕖 7:00 PM CDT
💻 Live on Zoom
🎟 FREE

Register today with this link https://www.mobilize.us/indivisibletx24/event/987094/

#IndivisibleTX24 #WomenResisting #AmbreenButt #ArtAsResistance #Democracy #Community #WomenLead #HistoryMatters #VirtualEvent #ZoomEvent Webinar July 23 at 7 pm with Ambreen Butt. Acclaimed artist focuswing on women resistance and strength

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An Evening with Ambreen Butt, a Pakistani American artist best known for her drawings, paintings, prints, and collages, that has been internationally recognized for her labor intensive, painted self-portraits that portray feminist and political ideas through traditional Persian art.
🗓️ Thu, July 23, 2026 · 7:00 PM · Zoom
https://mobilize.us/s/bfIMiz
Some losses never make the news — a child, a name, a woman erased from the record. Ambreen spends her practice refusing to let that happen. Using centuries-old Indo-Persian miniature painting techniques, layered thread, and collage, she turns grief into witness and motherhood into resistance. So timely, so topical.
Join us for a conversation on her works and what it means to make something beautiful out of what the world would rather forget. This will be a special night!!
https://ambreenbutt.com/

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Appreciation post to all friends and family who joined us in Milan to celebrate KaMag’s Radical Love 🖤

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Last chance | Watch the different stages of the creation of Ambreen Butt’s (@ambreen.butt) work “Rupture” (2026), currently on view at Gallery Wendi Norris.

As its title suggests, the artist physically severed the work’s surface in multiple places. In the spaces she ruptured, Butt slotted the cutout of an etching of a protesting woman who emerges out of the abstracted, rippling plane of a keffiyeh. Butt inserted the actual fabric of a keffiyeh through these ruptures, as an act of repair and restoration.

This work is on view for one day more in “Ambreen Butt: I Bear Witness,” which closes Saturday, May 9.

Ambreen Butt, “Rupture,” 2026. Watercolors, white gouache, pencil, collage, and fabric on tea-stained paper, 30 x 22 inches / 76.2 x 55.88 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.

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We are thrilled that María Magdalena Campos-Pons (@maria_magdalena_campos_pons) and Ambreen Butt (@ambreen.butt) are presenting work this week across Venice in exhibitions in and around the Biennale.

Campos-Pons is among the 111 participants in “In Minor Keys,” the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale), on view May 9 – November 22, 2026. With collaborator Kamaal Malak, she presents a new installation in the Central Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, a work rooted in one of the exhibition’s guiding threads: the creole garden and courtyard as sites of imaginative freedom and collective nourishment.

In the days surrounding the Biennale’s opening, Campos-Pons brings her practice into live performance across the Giardini and Arsenale:
— Wednesday, May 6, 5pm: Teatro Tese dei Soppalchi, Arsenale
— Thursday, May 7, 3pm: “Poetry Caravan” procession, Giardini della Biennale, in honor of the late curator Koyo Kouoh
— Saturday, May 9, 4pm: Teatro Tese dei Soppalchi, Arsenale

Also on view May 10–July 10, 2026 is “Resonance: Vanderbilt University in Venice” at Fondazione Giorgio e Armanda Marchesani, Dorsoduro. Initiated by Campos-Pons and Malak through the Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice (@eadj.program) and presented in collaboration with @vanderbiltu, “Resonance” is a palazzo-based laboratory of ideas and artistic practice in the form of exhibitions and public programs curated by Grace Aneiza Ali (@grace_aneiza_ali) and Selene Wendt. Ambreen Butt presents work alongside Carrie Mae Weems (@carriemaeweems), Deborah Willis (@debwillisphoto), and dozens of other artists.

The program opens Sunday, May 10 with “A Gathering in the Key of Resonance,” featuring a formal introduction and sonic intervention by Campos-Pons and Malak, followed by conversations with Siddhartha Mitter (@siddharthamitter), Aruna D’Souza (@invisible.flaneuse), and others throughout the day.

Images: Portrait of María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak by John Russell/Vanderbilt University. Portrait of Ambreen Butt by Kevin Todora.

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On view | “Awladi (My Children)” (2026) by Ambreen Butt

Ambreen Butt (@ambreen.butt) places a maternal figure at the center of the frame where she cradles walking irises, a flower that the artist grows in her own garden. The figure is framed within an ornamental border drawn from Indo-Persian manuscript traditions that Butt was classically trained in. The plant she holds spills beyond the frame’s edges, pressing the figure’s presence into our space.

The words “Awladi” and its English translation, “My Children,” permeate the entire work, repeating in small script across the ornamental field around the frame, and rising into three-dimensional letters formed from fabric pushed through cuts in the surface—fraying at the edges, their loose threads cascading downward like roots, or like grief that cannot be contained.

Butt physically cuts open the work’s surface, a visceral echo of the wounds that war and displacement leave behind. She then repairs those cuts with the same fabric. Gold embellishments and vegetal ornament coexist with raw, downward stains, resulting in an image that casts the maternal figure as an emblem of endurance.

“Ambreen Butt: I Bear Witness”
🗓️ On view at Gallery Wendi Norris through Saturday, May 9

Ambreen Butt, “Awladi (My Children)” (and details), 2026. Fabric, collage, gold leaf, vegetable dyes, watercolors, and gouache on tea-stained paper, 43.5 x 30.5 inches / 110.49 x 77.47 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.

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This Earth Day, we take a closer look at how Ambreen Butt (@ambreen.butt) deploys the land as a collaborator in her new series, “I Bear Witness,” currently on view at Gallery Wendi Norris.

In this series, the land embodies the ultimate manifestation of the maternal—something that sustains, witnesses, and holds. Throughout, Butt builds her surfaces from vegetable dyes, tea-staining, and eco-printing, the materials layered mark by mark. Earth-derived pigments suffuse the works, creating a direct connection between the painted surface and the earth from which these pigments are drawn.

Across multiple works, walking irises—cultivated from Butt’s own garden —appear as emblems of ephemerality and resilience. Each bloom opens for a single day. The plant propagates by bending toward the ground and taking root wherever it lands, walking onward.

“Ambreen Butt: I Bear Witness”
🗓️ On view through Saturday, May 9

Details of Ambreen Butt “Speak!” (2026), “Silence!” (2026), “Awladna (Our Children)” (2026), “Holding” (2026), “Substitution” (2026).

#EarthDay

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Photos from @morgalie’s recent visit to @ambreen.butt’s show, “I Bear Witness” at @gallerywendinorris

These pieces are a reflection on what it means to live in an age of constant exposure to global events. Where both images of joy and devastation exist side by side in an endless scroll. Through layered materials and meticulous, analog processes, Butt invites viewers to slow down, sit with the work, and truly absorb its meaning

#gallery #galleryshow #bayareaart #artist

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