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McCall’s work is held in the permanent collection of public institutions and by private individuals including the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Museum at FIT, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Amistad Research Center (New Orleans), The Museum of Modern Art Library, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York), Stonewall National Museum & Archives (Fort Lauderdale), and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library, Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Residence, Debbie Harry AKA Blondie, Jeffrey Gibson, and Cristina Grajales. Wolfe’s “The Colored Museum” (1991), and in the award-winning film “Quartier Mozart” (1992).

McCall’s work has been featured in Women’s Wear Daily, on George C.

McCall was an established force within HIF’s Black Fashion Museum collective presenting at their shows consecutively through 1994, as well as being featured in their museum exhibitions and prestigious events. Wright Museum of African American History, Stax Museum of American Soul Music, the Langston Hughes House, and Rush Arts Gallery. He’s been proclaimed by American Craft magazine, “The Button Man.” His visual and wearable art has been included in exhibitions at The Museum at FIT, Nordstrom, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Charles H. Circa 1988 he made his critically acclaimed wearable art debut at The Harlem Institute of Fashion (HIF) show for Harlem Week. He began his professional career in Harlem in the 1980s after arriving from his native Philadelphia with nothing more than two hundred dollars, a duffel bag and a few buttons in his pocket from home. Drawing inspiration from the vast button collection of his mother and family, McCall creates wearable and visual art by applying clothing buttons onto mostly upcycled fabrics, materials, and objects. Video about the book with Beau remembering his friends (runtime: 54:16:00)īeau McCall is an acclaimed visual artist. Rewind: Memories on Repeat (artist book, two copies)Ĭassette tape titled “Strand Beauties,” June 31, 1985Įmails from 2019-2021 documenting the book’s development Twenty-nine original photo collages created for the artist book Rewind: Memories on Repeat.

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