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URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/sonya-clark-we-are-each-other-pe
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SUMMARY:Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other\, Penny Stamps Speaker Series (Michi
 gan Theatre\, Ann Arbor)
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, September 21 at 5:30pm\, Sonya Clark will present
  a lecture for the Penny Stamps Public Lecture Series at Michigan Theater 
 in Ann Arbor\, MI. Please see the University of Michigan Stamps School of 
 Art &amp\; Design website for details.\nSonya Clark is an artist and educa
 tor who creates installations and objects rooted in craft’s legacy. She 
 employs the language of textiles and politics of hair to celebrate Blackne
 ss\, reclaim freedoms\, and interrogate historical and contemporary injust
 ices. The work is grounded in the exchange of stories and the transmission
  of craft techniques between individuals\, communities\, and generations.\
 n“Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other\,” currently on view at Cranbrook Art
  Museum through September 24\, is a traveling mid-career survey focusing
  on Clark’s community-centered and participatory projects created over t
 he past 25 years. Among them are the Hair Craft Project (a collaboration
  with 12 hairstylists)\, The Healing Memorial (created with thousands fr
 om the Detroit community as a salve for pandemic grief)\, Monumental Clot
 h: the flag we should know ( a series of interactive works that bring to 
 light the little-known cloth that ended the Civil War)\, and Finding Freed
 om (a 1500 square foot canopy created in part by incarcerated individual
 s). Her work has been exhibited in over 500 venues worldwide. ​“Son
 ya Clark: We Are Each Other” marks her 60th solo exhibit.\nClark is th
 e Winifred Arms Professor of Arts and Humanities at Amherst College in Mas
 sachusetts. Previously\, she held the title of Commonwealth Professor and 
 was a Distinguished Research Fellow in the School of the Arts at Virginia
  Commonwealth University. She has received awards from many organizations\
 , including United States Artists\, Pollock-Krasner\, Art Prize\, and Anon
 ymous Was a Woman.\nSonya’s ​“We Are Each Other” panel discussi
 on and closing reception will take place on Saturday\, September 23rd a
 t Cranbrook Art Museum from 2:30 – 5pm\; the event will include a 
 conversation with Renée Ater and Joey Quiñones\, with a poetry reading 
 by Nandi Comer.\nPresented in partnership with the Cranbrook Art Museum a
 nd the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, with support from the Arts
  &amp\; Resistance LSA Theme Semester. This project was made possible 
 by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\n\nS
 eries presenting partners: Detroit Public Television and PBS Books. Me
 dia partner: Michigan Radio.
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