Renee Butler received a B.A. in art history from the University of Maryland in 1977, having taken studio courses there from Anne Truitt and Sam Gilliam. In the early 1980s, she was awarded art colony fellowships from Yaddo, the Karolyi Foundation, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She received grants from the D.C. Commission for the Arts, the InterArts Program of the NEA, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Art Interdisciplinary Program, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Fairfax Council of the Arts. In the late 1980s, she worked with the Marilyn DeReggi Arts Ensemble creating stage set/installations for new music composers working with John Cage and Virgil Thomson at such venues as the French Embassy, Strathmore Hall, and the Baltimore and Walters Museums. Solo shows since 1986 include these venues: Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, MOCA-DC, Ellipse Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, Gallery K, and many others. She has also held group shows in New York and Washington, D.C. From 1999 to 2009, she co-founded, directed, and curated the Washington Arts Museum, which exhibited the work of under-recognized Washington, D.C. artists.
Renee Butler
Studios
New Hampshire
Renee Butler worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…