Sonya Clark (CRF 2012, Juror) recently shared her news with us.
The Smithsonian Institution acquired Monumental. At the opening event in the Renwick Gallery, Clark met Dr. Lonnie Bunch. Back in 2011, he was the curator who placed the Confederate Flag of Truce in the exhibit Clark saw at the National Museum of American Museum. Monumental, is the artist’s 100 scale replication of that historical object.
There is a new comic about Clark’s work that talks about the Truce flag too. Its title, “if you stitch with me, I’ll tell you a story” is what Clark’s grandmother, Chummy, used to say to her.
This year also yielded acquisitions at the Barry Museum, Chrysler Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Harvard’s Beinecke Library, and a few others in the works.
Clark is grateful for the folks who have helped get editions and prints out into the world. Amy Borezo and Ed Rayher helped fabricate the Twist collector’s boxes and piano roll paper printed with Lift Every Voice and Sing in Twist. The piano paper for the latter is punched with Jason Moran’s version of the tune. Goya Contemporary will be presenting those at the IDFPA Print Fair in NYC. Also at the IDFPA Print Fair, check out Mixografia‘s outstanding molded paper print of the Truce flag called ‘Confederate, surrender’.
In April, Clark took her first international trip since the start of COVID to give a lecture at the American Academy in Rome as part of an exhibit.
The catalogue for Solidarity Book Project designed by Ziddi Msangi is available.
Clark gave a keynote lecture In Indianapolis for the exhibit “The Past is Present” guest curated by Jonathan Square and an exhibit opening at the Rockefeller estate in New York called “Inspired Encounters.” For the Rockefeller exhibit, Amber Braverman helped make prints of poems by seven Black women in Twist, Clark’s hair font. If you dial 1-877-OUR-CURL you can hear each poet read her poem and all their united voices.
The Pew Foundation awarded a grant for Declaration House to “Monument Lab; lead artist Sonya Clark; a dynamic curatorial team of Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Paul Farber, and Naima Murphy Salcido; and five artists/historians in residence to develop a 2024 public art installation, a book, and public programs with local cultural organizations and arts leaders that reframes what is and what is not self-evident about this revolutionary site across its history.”
EXHIBITIONS
October 27 – 30, 2022: IFPDA Fair at the Javits Center.
Mixografia presents: Confederate, surrender
Goya Contemporary presents: Lift Every Voice and Sing
November 1 – December 15, 2022: Sonya Clark: Harmonies of Liberty at Albion O. Kuhn Gallery in Baltimore.
November 3 through December 18, 2022: The Conceptual Stitch at Concord Arts in Concord, MA.
Now through January 15, 2023: Past Is Present: Black Artists Respond to the Complicated Histories of Slavery at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis.
Artists include: Willie Cole, Sonya Clark, Roberto Lugo, Marcus Morris, Nell Painter, Rae Parker, Martin Puryear, Mary Sibande, Lorna Simpson, LaShawnda Crow Storm Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Shamira Wilson and many more.
Now through March 19, 2023: Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center Gallery at Pocantico in Tarrytown, NY.
Artists include: Sonya Clark, Maren Hassinger, Elana Herzog, Melissa Meyer, Fanny SanÃn, Barbara Takenaga, and Kay WalkingStick.
Now through April 2, 2023: This Present Moment at Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.
Artists: Tanya Aguiñiga, Bisa Butler, Nick Cave, David Chatt, Sonya Clark, Cristina Cordova, Cindy Drozda, Alicia Eggert, J. Paul Fennell, Aram Han Sifuentes, Carla Hemlock, Sharon Kerry-Harlan, Ron Ho, Katie Hudnall, Pat Kramer, Stephen Young Lee, Linda Lopez, Robert Lugo, Wendy Maruyama, Tom Loeser, John Mascoll, Connie Mississippi, George Nakashima, LJ Roberts, Judith Schaechter, Preston Singletary, Polly Adams Sutton, Toshiko Takaezu, Gail Tremblay , Nancy Worden, and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Now through June 9, 2024: Art and Design from 1900 to Now at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI.
News from Sonya Clark
