Sonya Clark
Subtitle: tatter, bristle, and mend
By: edited by Elizabeth Lynch
Contributors: Painter, Nell Irvin, contributor; Finney, Nikky, contributor; Cooks, Bridget R., 1972- contributor; Tillet, Salamishah, contributor; Miles, Tiya, 1970- contributor; Sterling, Susan Fisher, contributor; Wat, Kathryn A., contributor; Shambroom, Hannah, contributor; Lynch, Elizabeth, editor; National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.)
Publisher: National Museum of Women in the Arts
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780940979543
Subjects: Exhibitions; African American women artists; History; African American artists; Black Artists; Textile fabrics; Art
Other titles: Tatter, bristle, and mend
Description: "This exhibition--the first survey of Clark's twenty-five-year career--includes the artist's well-known sculptures made from black pocket combs, hair, and thread as well as works made from flags, currency, beads, sugar, cotton plants, pencils, books, a typewriter, and a hair salon chair." --
Notes: Published on the occasion of Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (March 3-May 31, 2021).
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments / -- Susan Fisher Sterling; title: In converation with Sonya Clark  -- Nell Painter; title: Muniment of hair  -- Nikky Finney; title: Tethered  -- Bridget R. Cooks; title: Hair stories  -- Salamishah Tillet; title: Truce and reconciliation: the political work of Sonya Clark's Confederate Flag of Truce  -- Tiya Miles; title: Tatter, bristle, and mend -- Kathryn Wat and Hannah Shambroom.