Daphne Harrison Lecture with Sonya Clark

For our annual Daphne Harrison Lecture:

Sonya Clark, Professor, Art, Amherst College

In this talk, held in conjunction with the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery exhibition, Hair/Craft, artist Sonya Clark will discuss artwork inspired by the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing" – work that she has produced in harmony with musicians that centers collaboration, innovation, craft, and design as a means to uplift suppressed voices.

Biography: Sonya Clark is Professor of Art at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Previously, she was a Distinguished Research Fellow in the School of the Arts and Commonwealth Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) where she served as chair of the Craft/Material Studies Department from 2006 until 2017. In 2016, she was awarded a university-wide VCU Distinguished Scholars Award. Her work has been exhibited in over 350 museum and galleries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship, a Pollock Krasner award, an 1858 Prize, an Art Prize Grand Jurors Award, and an Anonymous Was a Woman Award. Most recently, she was an inaugural recipient of the Black Rock Senegal Residency Fellowship.

Co-sponsored by the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery; the Department of Visual Arts; the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts; and the Department of Africana Studies.

Photo by Andrew Smith

Image description: A Black woman is standing outside and smiling at the camera. She is wearing a red wrap on her head and a black and white top.

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