Beau McCall: Buttons On!

Welcome to the webpage for the exhibition, Beau McCall: Buttons On! where you can access additional exhibition content including scans of the archival materials along with multimedia content to experience at your convenience. Plus, you can purchase exhibition gift shop items.

Click below to skip to a section:

• Gift Shop
• Explore the Archival Materials
• Beau McCall: The Button Man Short Film
• INTV-Bodytude Interview
• The Colored Museum Clip
• REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT  Video Companion Piece
• REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT Sample Pages
• Strange Beauties Demo Recordings
• The Land of Buttons sound art
• Jar of Buttons Mini-Oral History Recordings
• The Conversation Oral History Recordings & I, Too Poem by Langston Hughes
• An excerpt of one from Ntozake Shange's for colored girls... (in reference to Beau's work darkmuskoilegyptiancrystals&floridawater/redpotionno.1)
• Playlist for Beau McCall: Buttons On!

Watch Beau's first televised interview.

Watch a clip from the PBS production, The Colored Museum, a play by George C. Wolfe. The character Topsy Washington (Phyllis Yvonne Stickney) wears Button Bolero: Chocolate Sprinkles by Beau.

Beau discusses his collage series and artists' book, REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT. 

Click here for the version with embedded captions.

Listen to the sound art piece The Land of Buttons, 

created by Beau in collaboration with Yael Acher "KAT" Modiano.

Listen to select mini-oral history recordings inspired by Beau's site-specific installation, Jar of Buttons. Click for more recordings.

Listen to a select oral history recording inspired by Beau's piece, The Conversation. 

Click for more recordings.

Click to read the poem I, Too by Langston Hughes which inspired this work.