Sonya Clark: Textile Artist
Showing beginning Oct. 10. Selected works by award-winning VCUArts faculty member Sonya Clark.
Sonya Clark has served as chair of the Department of Craft and Material Studies since 2006. Her work as a textile artist ranges from intimate sculptural pieces that can be worn on the body to installations and interactive performances. With a firm grounding in craft that is expressed in fine detail and a celebration of materials both traditional (beading) and non-traditional (human hair), she engages with the concepts of identity and race. Personal and universal themes including perceptions of beauty, family, community, politics and history are woven into work that has earned Clark many awards and accolades, including most recently the Distinguished Scholarship Award during the 34th VCU Annual VCU Faculty Convocation.
Learn more about Sonya Clark with books featuring her work in the VCU Libraries collection:
- The Hair Craft Project NB237.C527 A4 2015
- Material Girls : contemporary Black women artists N6538.N5 M347 2011
- The Beaded Prayers Project N72.A76 C52 2013
- Hand + Made : the performative impulse in art and craft NX456.5.P38 H36 2010
- Manufractured : the conspicuous transformation of everyday objects N6498.A8 H65 2008
- Crafted : objects in flux NK1397 .Z55 2015
Artwork in the Exhibit:
- Afro Abe
- Date: 2008-2012
- Description: series of 44, five-dollar bill and thread
- Encrusted
- Date: 2016
- Description: five dollar bill with grown sugar crystals
- Hair Craft Project (Jamilah)
- Date: 2014
- Description: collection of MFA, Boston, photograph
- Hair Craft Project (Ife)
- Date: 2014
- Description: collection of MFA, Boston, photograph
- Signet Ring (cotton)
- Date: 2016
- Description: cotton and silver
- Signet Ring (hair)
- Date: 2016
- Description: hair and silver
- Whole Hole
- Date: 2016
- Description: combs
- Writer Type
- Date: 2016
- Description: typewriter and hair
Categories Collections, Faculty Work