Sonya Clark's lecture will begin promptly at 5:00pm, followed by a Q&A session.

Sonya Clark roots her 20-year art practice in the political and cultural intersections of textiles and hair. She has exhibited in 350 venues on every continent (except one) and every state (except a handful) and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Virginia Museum of Fine Art. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Grant, the Grand Juror’s Award at Art Prize for the Hair Craft Project, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, an American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellowship, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and a United States Artist Fellowship. Currently, Sonya is a Professor of Art at Amherst College. Prior, she served as the chair of the Craft/Material Studies department at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is an alumna of Cranbrook Academy of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Amherst College. 

Learn more at www.sonyaclark.com.