As a business owner and artist myself, I feel nothing but secondhand embarrassment and…read moredisappointment having attached my name to The Butler Art Center and Gallery. The oversight, lack of communication, and overall nonsensical social politics of this "organization" have proven to be nothing more than a waste of time and effort. I got involved with the art center when I moved here in October of 2023, originally modeling for their portrait group (Terry Hagan got me involved.) I continued to stay in touch with various members of the art center up until I modeled again for the portrait group in February of 2024. At this time, i met someone who was involved with the art center and became very important to me and he offered to share his wall space at the center for me to be able to hang some paintings and enter shows and things and be more involved. It was then the problem started appearing. I hung some paintings in March of 2024, hoping to enter their spring floral show and was told by Shirley, after I had hung them, that it was too late to enter the show, they had been judged, etc. but I could leave them on the walls to sell. I took it as my bad on the timing. I was NEVER asked to fill out any form of paperwork saying that my paintings were in the building or discussing fees or anything of the sort, even when I asked directly about it, because I knew there were forms that needed to be filled out to be able to sell my art through the center. Through various other discussions, it was learned that the person important to me was disliked by members of the board for the way he appeared, simply the way he dressed, going so far as to debate giving back his donation. We continued on working with the art center, being involved with different events and things, overall dedicating time and effort to trying to better it and being met with only frustration. In May of 2024 I was approached and directly asked to provide abstract paintings for their abstract and 3D show, including doing the chalk mural that was present during the show. I, again, was NEVER presented paperwork for the 22 paintings I had displayed in the building. I asked multiple board members, Sally and Shirley included, and was told that it would be taken care of or that they would get it to me and that never happened. I then woke up on the day of the reception for the show to find out that I had been left out of judging again. I have NEVER been apologized to or contacted in any regard. This has been brought directly to their attention on multiple occasions, and despite people having my contact information, they have chosen to go out of their way to apologize to the person that originally made the donation and shared wall space with me, the checkbook. This egregious oversight, lack of communication, and overall lack of organization and respect for artists is a disgusting representation of what an art center and gallery should be. The Butler Art Center and Gallery is a failing prospect, continuously mismanaging funds and donations, and should not be used as any representation for an organization or business pertaining to artists.