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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters From the Archive: Bisa Butler

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Design, Arts

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Fiber artist Bisa Butler discusses the AfriCOBRA tradition, the artistic breakthrough that led to her finding her voice, and the process behind her amazing life-size works.



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0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective

0:07.0

You know when people die and the pictures at the funeral are sometimes younger?

0:13.4

Like once they die they're atlas.

0:15.4

It's perfectly fine to have a picture of her at 20 or 30 or 40.

0:20.6

I understood that of her before she passed, that's how she saw herself and that's how

0:25.9

she wanted to be seen.

0:31.9

This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.

0:38.2

For 16 years Debbie has been talking with creative people about what they do, how they got

0:42.4

to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.

0:46.3

On this episode, Bissa Butler talks about her career and about how making a quilted portrait

0:51.4

of her grandmother led to an artistic breakthrough.

0:55.1

I think they could see it and I could feel it too like, I got it, I finally got it.

1:04.7

There's another podcast you might enjoy, it's called Am I Normal from the Ted Audio Collective.

1:09.7

It's back with a new miniseries all about the stories behind the statistics.

1:15.2

What does adulthood mean in a place where more than three quarters of people between

1:18.7

ages 18 and 35 live with their parents?

1:22.2

What defines joy when you live in one of the top ranked countries for happiness?

1:26.2

Here from the people that make up every interesting data point, listen to Am I Normal?

1:30.2

Wherever you get your podcasts.

1:32.3

Hey listener, a quick favor, we are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful

1:37.6

if you could take just a few minutes to respond.

1:40.2

Please visit survey.prx.org slash design matters to take the survey today.

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