Breath of LIFE, 2023

Fiber/textile

10 x 8.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $500

Starting Bid: $350

Buy It Now: $750

CELESTE BUTLER, Omaha, Nebraska, is a fiber and textile artist, storyteller, and Quiltologist, a term that captures Celeste's holistic creative process and her investment in quilting as both artistic practice and lifestyle. Celeste's multifaceted practice covers the wide spectrum; that provides space for healing and comfort, abstract art, and a voice for social justice.

Celeste's work tells the stories of her family history which has been shaped by Descendant's for the African Continent, The Great Migration, redlining in Omaha, and the skilled work of her mother, grandmother, godmother and women in her neighborhood who made magic with their hands. Celeste has exhibited her artwork at the Burgwin Wright House Museum, Wilmington, NC; and PACE, Council Bluffs, IA. She has had fellowships with the Union for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, Omaha Public Schools, Nelson Mandela Elementary School, She has lectured and taught at Joslyn Art Museum, Metropolitan Community College, University of Omaha and the National African American Quilt Convention, Published in the New Your Times and Washington Post.