BUTTER Celebrates Black Art As A First-Of-Its-Kind Fair Putting 100% Of Sales Into The Artists’ Pockets

“This is the no commission fair,” she explained. “We are testing a new model in the art industry. It is not normal at all to give 100 percent of the sales proceeds to the artists. In the art industry, like in the visual art industry, when an artist does a piece, they usually have to give 20, 30, 40, or even 50 percent to the person who sold it for them.”

She continued: “So you’re talking about reparations here. We’re talking about economic justice here. There’s not a fair doing that.”