Featured Events in Pierce in April, 2025 (May Updated)

Annual Frames + Games Film Festival | Friday April 25th 2025 | 4PM - 7PM | Join us to celebrate the incredible talent of RMCAD's Animation + Game Art students at the 2025 Frames 'N Games Festival! Experience a showcase of their hard work on the big screen, featuring the latest projects from our ANGA students and alumni. Enjoy food and refreshments, followed by a special guest speaker (TBA), and a screening of their impressive work! Located in Mary Harris Auditorium on RMCAD Campus! Information Source: Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design | eventbrite

Join us in Shore 104 for a day of craftmaking amongst your peers! There will be bracelet and galaxy jar making- and get your hands dirty with some tie-dyeing! Information Source: RMCAD Student Life | eventbrite

Doors open at 5:00 pm | Talk begins at 5:30 pm Through her dynamic, celebratory quilted portraits of people of African descent, Bisa Butler (b. 1973, Orange, NJ) investigates the purposes and potential of portraiture within the Black historical narrative. Butler's influences range widely from personal family scrapbooks to American folk traditions and AfriCOBRA philosophies. Although her finished works are made entirely of textiles, Butler approaches the medium from a painterly perspective. Sourcing imagery mainly from photographs, she uses layered fabrics and quilting to create unique compositions, psychological depth, and detailed textures that she found missing from her paintings. By returning to textiles, Butler has reconnected with her family's history since it was her grandmother and mother who taught her to sew. Bisa Butler lives in South Orange, New Jersey and has a studio in Jersey City. Butler earned her BFA in painting at Howard University, Washington, D.C. in 1995 and holds a MAT in teaching art from Montclair State University, New Jersey. Her work has been exhibited widely, both domestically and internationally. In 2020, Butler had her first institutional solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Pérez Art Museum, Miami. The World Is Yours, Butler’s first solo exhibition with Jeffrey Deitch, in 2023 in New York, was enthusiastically received and attracted thousands of visitors. Bisa Butler's Artist Talk is part of the 2024/2025 VASD Program Series. Go here to learn more about this year's artists and events. Information Source: The VASD Program at RMCAD | eventbrite