CAM Artist Features | Sonya Clark in 60 Seconds
11 videos • 50 views • by Cranbrook Art Museum As a part of "Sonya Clark:" We Are Ach Other" on view at Cranbrook Art Museum through September 24, 2023, artist Sonya Clark tells us about her work in 60 seconds or less. "Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other" is a mid-career survey of the artist’s work with a focus on her community-centered and participatory projects. Over her twenty-five-year career, Clark has been committed to issues of history, race, and reconciliation. Clark often undertakes this exploration through everyday fiber materials—hair, flags, found fabric—and craft practices. In Clark’s work, craft and community are intertwined, and the resulting projects facilitate new collective encounters across racial, gender, and socioeconomic divisions. The ethos of her participatory work is embedded in the title "We Are Each Other." It is inspired by the poem about civil rights activist Paul Robeson (1971) by Gwendolyn Brooks, which ends with the phrase: “we are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”