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Sonya Clark | From Hair to There

December 16, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sonya Clark headshots

The Griffin Museum is pleased to present artist Sonya Clark in a special event on Thursday December 16th at 7pm.

We see Sonya Clark’s talk as an extension of our most recent Photo Chat Chat on unique interpretation of hair and how it defines us with Rohina Hoffman, Greg Jundanian and Eileen Powers. Sonya’s schedule conflicted with our planned schedule. Instead of a December Photo Chat Chat event, we bring you a special visit with Sonya Clark.

Clark sees hair as material and substance, a medium of individual identity and collective humanity. She will delve into her use of hair as language, music, and ancestral fiber.

This program is brought to you by the Richard’s Family Trust.

About Sonya Clark

Sonya Clark headshotsSonya Clark is Professor of Art at Amherst College. Previously, she served as chair for the Craft and Material Studies Department for 12 years in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University and as a Design professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 10 years. She earned an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and was honored with their Distinguished Alumni Award. She has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her first college degree is a BA from Amherst College where she also received an honorary doctorate in 2015. In 2021 she was awarded two additional honorary degrees from Franklin and Marshall College and Maine College of Art.
Her work has been exhibited in over 400 museum and galleries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia. In 2021 the National Museum of Women in the Arts in DC hosted her first museum survey, Tatter, Bristle, and Mend. She is the recipient of a Rappaport Prize, United States Artist Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Art Prize Grand Jurors Award, and an Anonymous Was a Woman Award. She has been an artist in residence internationally at Red Gate in China, Civitella Ranieri in Italy, Carmago in France, the American Academy in Rome, the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency in Italy, and Black Rock in Senegal. Nationally she has been a resident at the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Knight Foundation at McColl, Yaddo, and now in Maine at Indigo Arts Alliance.

Details

Date:
December 16, 2021
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Event Category:

Organizer

The Griffin Museum of Photography

Venue

The Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester, Ma 01890 United States + Google Map
Phone
781-729-1158

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