MUSEUM OF WONDER
Embark on a captivating journey with artist Butch Anthony in a unique Fireside Chat event, featuring a special screening of his acclaimed film documentary, "Chasin’ Butterflies: The Art of Being Butch Anthony." Recently honored with the "Best Short" award at The Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah Film Festival, this short film has also been selected for the 20th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, making its Northwest premiere in Montana next month. The evening will include a Q&A session, providing a rare opportunity to delve deeper into Butch's creative process.
Immerse yourself further as Butch's extraordinary artwork graces our hallways and lounge from December 30th to January 1st, offering a visual feast to complement this exceptional cinematic experience. Don't miss this chance to connect with the artist and explore the fascinating world of Butch Anthony's art.
Hello, World!
About Butch
Butch Anthony is a contemporary, self-taught artist, maker, and collector of objects and antiques. He grew up on his family's 80-acre property in Seale, Alabama, where he lives and works today in a home he built by hand. He is the creator of the Museum of Wonder, The World’s First Drive Thru Museum, and The Possum Trot.
In the early 1990's Butch started creating art using various media and techniques, crafting them into one-of-a-kind-masterpieces. Throughout a career spanning decades, Butch created a specific genre of work called Intertwanglelism, (inter = to mix; twangle = a distinctive way of speaking, thinking, behaving, assessing; and ism = a theory). Butch attended Auburn University in the mid 1980's, where he studied zoology, geology, and biology. While there, he enrolled in a comparative anatomy class that he would later attribute to the use of veins and bones in his art.
Butch’s work has been featured in solo, group, and juried exhibitions across the United States and abroad in venues such as the Akron Museum of Art (Akron, Ohio), Wiregrass Museum of Art (Dothan, Alabama), Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (Charleston, South Carolina), and the Black Rat Project (London, England). He has been featured on the television series American Pickers and his work in publications including The New York Times, Garden and Gun, and Hyperallergic. Butch was also included in Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists, a book which showcases master artists from the state.
Space Limited | Free Entry | Cocktails for Purchase for Guest 21+