Samantha Butler
Samantha Butler is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based out of Portland, Maine and Kearny, New Jersey. With a practice spanning various media in the visual and performing arts, her work is grounded in the heartfelt exploration and abstraction of interpersonal relationships. She has a deep appreciation for artwork that is tactile, architectural, and connects with the human body.
Education
BA Studio Art & American Studies, Connecticut College, New London, CT, 2017
Studio Art, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, 2015
Awards
Kindling Fund Award for New System Exhibitions
Exhibitions
2019 Gardenship Inaugural Show, Group Exhibition, The Pocket Gallery, Newark, NJ
2019 Laundry Day, Group Exhibition, New System Exhibitions, Portland, ME
2017 18 of Us, Group Exhibition, Connecticut College, New London, CT, First Place Award
2017 The Edible Landscape Project, Group Exhibition, 13 Golden, New London, CT
Production Design
2019 Show and Tell dir. Sean Mewshaw, State Theater, Portland, ME
2018 Timbuktu, USA dir. Kenneth Prestininzi, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston, MA
2018 The Birds dir. Teresa Cruz, Back Swamp Schoolhouse, Florence, SC
2016 Mud dir. Teresa Cruz, Tansill Theater, New London, CT
2014 Alchemy of Desire/ Dead Man’s Blues dir. Teresa Cruz, Palmer Theater, New London, CT
Experience
New System Exhibitions, Co-Director, Portland, ME, 2019 - Present
Gardenship, Pioneer Artist-in-Residence, Kearny, NJ, 2019 - Present
Bread and Puppet Theater, Apprentice and Volunteer, Glover, VT, 2015 and 2019
Junction Mobile Theater Lab, Producer and Co-Founder, Darlington, SC, 2018
