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The artists and authors in Buttery Spread use food as a starting point, in one way or another. They explore form and materiality, pleasure, craft, labor, identity, desire, wonder, queerness, and our relationships to the earth and each other. Many of these pieces present evolving disciplines and share how what we consume is a part of what we create.

In the reading room, you’ll find publications that are creative in their approach to presenting food. These artists’ books, zines, magazines, and alternatively published printed materials expand the functional notion of a cookbook or recipe book. A book about walking, shoemaking, and bread making; a collection of writing and art on agriculture, the earth, and queerness; a zine published in the depths of COVID on the illicit exchange of toilet paper for dried beans, posh chocolate for home-made hand sanitizer, and other non-market-based transactions centered on the human experience.

At present, there is no space in Pittsburgh where these publications would find a home, all together. What does it mean for these pieces to occupy a single place? How can we engage with and occupy gallery spaces alternatively? How can we learn to stay a while?

The visual art in Buttery Spread presents familiar food objects with a playful twist, a sense of whimsy. A fish sandwich takes a fantastical shape, an ear of corn becomes a boat, potatoes are presented in all of their holiness. We want you to remain curious.

Featured artists include Vania Evangelique, JR Holtz, Darian Johnson, Sarah LaPonte, Lauren McCoy, Steph Neary, Sophia Pappas, Rosabel Rosalind, Jennifer Shin, Gabrielle (Gabe) Wolfe, and Imin Yeh.

This exhibition also includes a library of books, zines, and magazines.

Online marketplace for artistic and vintage sportswear. The Etsy for sports fans.

Covered the muni bond market within Private Wealth Management group

Major in Accounting, Minor in Economcis