About Me


Mixed Media Artist:
Mixed Media Painting, Collage, Printmaking: Monotypes, Collographs, Chine Colle

Earth Series, M-M, 2015. Amena Butler
                    

Art Resource Curator: Collection Management; Research; Registrar; Curator; Art Collections Inventory; Cataloging; Data Entry; Editor.
Curated Exhibits: Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum, Oklahoma Indian Art Gallery, Owens Art Place Museum, Oscar Jacobson Foundation & Native American Cultural Center, Melton Art Library, the Plunge at Paseo, Langston University/OKC Campus, Langston University main campus, Greenwood Cultural Center, Red Earth Museum, Rose State College, Chambers Library UCO, and assisted with exhibits at the Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum, Satellite Gallery Science Museum, the Oklahoma Transportation Board and many more.

Art Resource Curator, Melton Art Reference Library
Gallery Assistant, Doris Littrell-Oklahoma Indian Art Gallery. 
Teaching Artist 
Museum Studies-University of Central Oklahoma
OVAC Professional Grant winner, 2012
Amena grew up overseas in Far East Asia and has lived in Oklahoma for over 20 years. 


Professional Affiliations:

Board Member Secretary, Owens Art Place Museum

Board Member Inclusion in Art(Art Committee)

Board Member Edmond Art Association (Historian and Exhibition Chair)

Board of Trustees Oscar Jacobson Foundation (past)

Ntu Art Association of Oklahoma, Inc., Curator and Art Committee (past)

Governing Board, Oklahoma African American Hall of Fame (past)

IAO Individual Artist of Oklahoma (Visual Art Committee)

International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists

NCS (National Collage Society)

OLA (Oklahoma Library Association

OVAC (Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition


Hydrangeas, M-M, 2014. Amena Butler

Published In:

The Fine Arts Trader Publication, 2006-2015; The Oklahoman, October 2010, 2015, 2016; The Guthrie News Leader, Feb 2007, July 2007, 2014, 2016; Art Focus magazine, Sept/Oct 2010, 2015; Juxtaposition: Brunel Faris and the Visual Arts in Oklahoma City, 2008; Directory of Oklahoma Artists, 2016, 2007; Celebrate Oklahoma Voices, 2008, 2009,Oklahoma Heritage Center; OVAC blog, 2012

Edmond Art Association

ISA-Collage Artists Profile

Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition