coming soon! beau mccall: buttons On! at fuller craft museum

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Beau's retrospective exhibition will debut at FCM: March 30, 2024 through January 5, 2025.

More updates soon!

Peabody Essex Museum Workshop w/Beau McCall

Click image to register for Beau's button necklace workshop at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Newark Museum of Art Gift Shop Presents Beau McCall

Click image to purchase button necklaces by Beau McCall. Now available at the Newark Museum of Art Gift Shop.

UNBIASED LABEL PODCAST INTERVIEWS BEAU MCCALL

Click image to listen to Beau's recent interview with Zara Korutz of the Unbiased Label Podcast.

Beau McCall Featured in New Playing Cards

Click image to purchase the new playing cards by Abigail Ekue from her photography series, "Black in Black & White."

On View at The Center--June 15 - September 1, 2022

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Beau's work will be on view in Queer Cuts: Reimagining Queer Collage.

Queerty Interviews Beau McCalL About Moi Renee

Click image to read Beau discuss the legacy of his dearly departed friend, Moi Renee.

Check out Beau's artists' book featuring Moi Renee.

On view at The Museum at FIT--January 19, 2022 - April 17, 2022

Beau's work was recently collected by and displayed at The Museum at FIT for the exhibition, Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties.

american craft magazine profiles beau

Click image to check out Beau's profile in American Craft Magazine!

archive alive interview part 1

In addition to discussing the overarching themes of friendship and nostalgia, Beau “The Button Man” McCall provides context to selected images from his debut art book "REWIND: Memories on Repeat" which beautifully commemorates the extraordinary friends he lost over the years through archival images.

archive alive interview part 2

Beau discusses:

-Growing up in late 1960s South Philly

-Starting a queer Black punk band -1970s disco and nightlife

-Moving to NYC with $1 and a dream -Finding love after enduring toxic relationships

-Black Fashion Museum and Harlem Institute of Fashion affiliation

-How Michael K. Williams ended up modeling his designs

Fine arts museums of san francisco

In this intimate presentation independent curator Souleo spotlights two of his loves: fashion designer Patrick Kelly and creative artist Beau McCall. During this talk, Souleo explores the similarities and differences between these two creatives, who both used clothing buttons to imbue their works with joy, and shares how each inspires his sense of personal style and curatorial projects that amplify Black voices in fashion.

STonewall national museum & archives interview

Presented in conversation with SNMA Executive Director Hunter O’Hanian, Beau McCall and Souleo celebrate the power of friendship and memories in the LGBTQ+ community during this talk for Beau McCall’s REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT (guest edited by Souleo).

Beau McCall visits The Artist Recreates the World

Check out this interview where Beau discusses his creative practice.

New Event @ Peabody Essex Museum

Welcome! Join artist Beau McCall to unleash your inner fashion designer in this first-ever in-person Create Night celebrating Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love.

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