Video + Word + Art


Putting It Together - Three

Butterfly Williams also works in conceptual video, spoken word and visual art. Below is a retrospective of Dr. Butterfly’s work.


VIDEO

True Colors: Illuminating Pharaoh Tarot @ ARK Exhibition + Auction

True Colors: Illuminating Pharaoh Tarot @ ARK Exhibition + Auction

2021   

“True Colors: Illuminating Pharaoh Tarot”   ARK Exhibition + Auction Svane Family Foundation  San Francisco Art Institute Fort Mason Center for Art + Culture     

2019

“It’s Time” Group Collaboration Kemetic Visions: Arts-Based Community Research Project Saybrook University Pacific Center for Human Growth

2015   

“Blood Is Mere Decoration” Video Projection Night Light Multimedia Garden Party SOMArts Cultural Center

2011   

“Black Is: A Celebration of Black History Month” Schoolwide Assembly Presentations Longfellow Middle School


WORD 

image from It’s Time / graphic from The Throne @ Saybrook University

image from It’s Time / graphic from The Throne @ Saybrook University

2022

Lighting the Path: Letters from Black Men to Young Black Men and Boys Book Chapter Contributor AfroSolo Theatre Company

2021

The Throne, or the Ballad of Isis and Osiris in the Key of Life Poet Saybrook Film, Book and Poetry Festival

2017

The Myth of Osiris and Isis      Reader            C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

2015

Chaotic Poetry Performance Poet                               Pacific Felt Factory Grand Opening

2012

Queer Rebels of the Harlem Renaissance “Post-Queer” + “Black Male Power”  Performance Poet                African-American Art & Culture Complex

2004 - 2009

GuyWriters Co-Founder + Poetry Group Facilitator + Event Organizer + Newsletter Editor MAGNET + Other Venues


ART

Your Novel. Your Romance. @ Shakespeare & Co. Books

Your Novel. Your Romance. @ Shakespeare & Co. Books

2016 - 2021

Pacific Felt Factory Newsletter Editor

2013   

Your Novel. Your Romance. Co-Installation Artist                    Shakespeare & Co. Books 

2012   

Jean Bosco Bakunzi Exhibition Pop-Up Gallery Producer                    Progressive Grounds

2010

The New Jim Crow Diorama Artist Tiny Tropolis Burning Man