Sonya Clark, Hair Craft Project with Jah, 2014. Photo by Naoko Woesugi.
Logan Lecture: Sonya Clark
Sonya Clark transforms everyday fiber materials—hair, flags, and found fabrics—into profound statements on race, culture, and class. Working with her chosen objects, Clark weaves, stitches, folds, braids, dyes, pulls, and snips threads of ideas to create new meanings. For more than thirty years, she has explored ideas of Blackness, uncovered little-known objects from American history, and sought to bring greater visibility to figures from the African diaspora.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Avenir Institute of Textile Arts and Fashion and the Modern and Contemporary Art department.
This event is part of the 2024-25 Logan Lecture Series.
Photo by Michael Prince.
About the Artist
Sonya Clark is professor of art at Amherst College, Massachusetts, and was Distinguished Research Fellow in the School of the Arts and Commonwealth Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where she served as chair of the Craft/Material Studies Department from 2006 to 2017.
Her work is the public collections of Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, among others.
Learn more on her website, sonyaclark.com.
Sonya Clark, Writer Type. Photo credit: Taylor Dabney.
Sonya Clark, Hair Craft Project with Jah, 2014. Photo by Naoko Woesugi.
Since 2007, the Logan Lecture Series at the Denver Art Museum has presented talks by over 120 contemporary artists. Organized by the Modern and Contemporary Art department, the series is made possible through the generous support of Vicki and Kent Logan.
