President’s Lecture Series: Amy & David Butler

Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024 | 5:30–8 p.m.

Reception 5–6:30 p.m.; lecture begins at 6:30 p.m.

Canzani Auditorium
60 Cleveland Ave.

Columbus College of Art & Design welcomes artists, designers, and CCAD alumni Amy and David Butler for this fall’s President’s Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3. The Butlers, who reside in Granville, Ohio, will join CCAD’s president, Dr. Melanie Corn, in a conversation about what it means to be an artist and designer in central Ohio today, including a discussion on their personal growth and the process of charting their paths forward while evolving as professionals and individuals. That conversation will include a discussion on the “snowball effect” of creating opportunities that build upon each other; the outdated idea that you must live on the coasts, or a large city, to reach an audience; how to create and develop your own opportunities; and the ways in which creatives can move toward what moves them.

More about Amy & David Butler

Amy Butler’s (Fashion Design, 1988) eponymous Amy Butler Design is a multimedia, multimodal enterprise that includes:

Caravan Souk, a brand Butler developed during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic that features an assortment of artisanal home decor, fashion, accessories, textiles, and artifacts inspired by the Butlers’ global travels, as well as one-of-a-kind pieces created in the studio. Caravan Souk items are sold via a traditional online shop, as well as by limited-edition, live product “drops,” and pop up shops.
Amy Butler’s Blossom Magazine, an online, free visual journal with creative ideas and inspiration.
Several books published by Chronicle Books, including Amy Butler’s Piece Keeping, Amy Butler’s Stencils, Amy Butler’s Style Stitches, Amy Butler’s Little Stitches, and Amy Butler’s in Stitches.
Plus, global retreats, workshops, and reiki sessions.

Learn more about Amy Butler.

David Butler (Graphic Design, 1987) is a visual and graphic artist, writer, and part-time musician who specializes in ground-up brand development and rebrands, advertising, retail shop concepts, and creative copywriting. He partners with his friends to collaborate on various large scale projects, and has developed all levels of creative for clients around the globe. Butler has published several books with Chronicle, STC, and Andrews McMeel. As a collage artist and sculptor, he has exhibited across the United States and featured in international magazines for 30 years. In addition to his work on Amy Butler Design, David Butler’s projects include:

Retail projects for American Eagle, Nike, Hollister, Timberland, and others.
Branding, design, merchandise, and much more for a number of central Ohio restaurants and bars, including Ghostwriter Public House, Three Tigers Brewing, and Harvest Pizzeria.
Label and packaging designs for several brewers and distillers, including Rogue, God’s Acre Bourbon, and podcaster Adam Carolla’s Carolla Drinks.
Album covers, posters, and music videos for the indie rock band Black Owls (of which he is a member), as well as art for Rolling Stone magazine.
Fine art exhibitions around central Ohio, including in summer 2024, the solo show Of the Mind’s Eye at Newark Station in Newark. Butler works in sculpture and collage, the latter of which was used for the marketing of Cirque du Solieil's Varekai.

Learn more about David Butler.

Also at CCAD

President’s Lecture: Amy & David Butler coincides with the opening of Beeler Gallery’s newest exhibition, Tracing Echoes, in the Beeler Gallery Project Space. A reception happening 5–6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at CCAD will celebrate both the Butlers’ conversation and the new show of work by college faculty Kelly Malec-Kosak and Julie Abijanac. Lecture attendees are encouraged to visit Tracing Echoes, as well as Beeler Gallery’s FotoFocus Biennial: I Was Here, while enjoying the reception before the lecture begins at 6:30 p.m.