The Hair Craft Project | Copies available for $25 at HairCraftProject.com
Over 120 pages that include full color photos & 11 essays by artists and curators that chronicle The Hair Craft Project: Co-Winner of ArtPrize 2014
The Hair Craft Project, led by artist Sonya Clark, highlights the talents of 12 stylists in Richmond VA’s hairdressing community. The project shows the stylists’ ability to manipulate the hairs on Clark’s own head while also showcasing the stylists’ undeniable textile artistry on canvases stitched with thread. The project breaks down barriers by crossing boundaries between hair salons and art galleries as sites of aesthetics, craft, skill, improvisation, and commerce.
Stylists include: Kamala Bhagat, Dionne James Eggleston, Marsha Johnson, Chaunda King, Anita Hill Moses, Nasirah Muhammad, Jameika and Jasmine Pollard, Ingrid Riley, Ife Robinson, Natasha Superville, and Jamilah Williams
Text by: Arnold Joseph Kemp, Elissa Auther, Bill Gaskins, Bert Ashe, Ruti Talmor, Ashley Kistler, Henry John Drewal, Sonya Clark, Brooke Davis Anderson, Maya Smart, Emily Smith, and A’Lelia Bundles
The Hair Craft Project
Crafted: Objects in Flux
The Beaded Prayers Project
converge
sonya clark
the new materiality
common ties
cultural memories
wig series
hair series
comb series
beaded prayers
calculated gestures
african inspirations
tangles, teeth & touch