Sonya Clark

2018 |

• James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Educator Award, Washington, DC

2017 |

• Commonwealth Professor, highest distinction, Virginia Commonwealth University
• American Academy in Rome, VCUarts Affiliate Resident, Rome, Italy
• Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York
• Brandywine Workshop Lifetime Achievement Award with Ruth Fine and El Anatsui
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship

2016 |

• University Distinguished Scholarship Award, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Distinguished Research Faculty Fellow, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University
• BAU Institute Residency at Carmago Foundation, Cassis, France
• Gibbes Museum Artist in Residence, Charleston, South Carolina

2015 |

• VCU Arts Faculty Award for Distinguished Achievement in Research, Richmond, VA
• Style Weekly 2015 Power List, Top Ten In Arts And Culture, Richmond, VA
• Kidder Artist-in-Residence, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Fanoon Center for Printmedia Research, VCU-Qatar, Doha, Qatar

2014 |

• ArtPrize Grand Juried Prize co-winner
• ArtPrize Juried Award, Best Two-Dimensional Work
• 1858 Award for Southern Contemporary Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
• CODA Award for public art project with Gensler and Indianapolis Museum at Alexander Hotel
• Theresa Pollak Award, Richmond VA

2013 |

• Craft Research Grant, Center for Craft Creativity and Design

2012 |

• Belle Women in the Arts Award, Richmond, VA
• Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Umbertide, Italy

2011 |

• United States Artists Fellow
• Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
• Cranbrook Academy of Art Distinguished Mid-Career Alumni Award
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship
• McColl Center Artist in Residence, Charlotte, North Carolina

2010 |

• Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship

2009 |

• Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) Fellowship
• Outstanding Woman in the Arts for the State of Virginia VCA
• Terry Family Foundation Edenfred Residency, Madison, Wisconsin
• Donald Jay Gordon Visiting Artist, Swarthmore College

2008 |

• Top Ten Exhibits 2008 (City Paper) in Baltimore, Maryland

2006 |

• Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Residency, Bellagio, Italy
• Pollock Krasner Grant

2005 |

• Ruth Chenven Foundation Award
• Red Gate Artist in Residence, Beijing, China

2004 |

• Romnes Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in Creative Arts
• Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professor in the Arts Residency, Marshall University, West Virginia

2002 |

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Grant
• Meta Schroeder Beckner Endowment Grant Funding for the Beaded Prayers Project

2001 |

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Grant
• CityArts Grant (Baltimore, Maryland)

2000 |

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Grant
• Lillian Elliott Award
• Meta Schroeder Beckner Endowment Grant
• Wisconsin Arts Board Artist Fellowship Award

1999 |

• Arts Institute Edna Wiechers Grant

1997 |

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Grant

1996 |

• Hunter Museum of Art Juror’s Choice Award, Juror: Sam Gilliam

1994 |

• Nita “Billie” Barak Memorial Merit Scholarship (Cranbrook Academy of Art)
• Smithsonian Institution Graduate Fellowship (National Museum of African Art)

1993 |

• Philip Morris Fellowship for graduate education at Cranbrook Academy of Art

1992 |

• Jack Lenor Larsen Scholarship (Haystack Mountain School of Crafts)
• Undergraduate Merit Scholarship (Art Institute of Chicago)

1988 |

• Excellence in Scholarship Prize in Psychology (Amherst College)

2017 |

• Sonya Clark: Rooted, A. D. Gallery, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, North Carolina
• Entanglements, SECCA, Winston Salem, North Carolina
• Both Sides Now: Sonya Clark and Joyce Scott, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Oaths and Epithets, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Now and Then, Tuttle Gallery, Owings Mills, Maryland
• Hair Craft Project (in collaboration with 12 hairdressers (catalogue),Welsh Galleries, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia / University Art Galleries, University of La Verne, La Verne, California

2016 |

• Follicular, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Virginia
• Bitter, Sweet, and Tender, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Generations: Joyce Scott and Sonya Clark, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland
• Hair Stories, Germantown Academy, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

2015 |

• Sonya Clark, University of Michigan, Institute of Humanities Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan

2014 |

• Same Difference, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
• Black and White and Thread All Over, George Mason University, VA and Millersville University, PA
• Hair Craft Project (Collaboration with 11 local hairdressers), 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

2013 |

• Hassinger & Clark: Combs and Constellations, University of Delaware Museums, Newark, DE
• Ahead of Hair, Contemporary Wing, Washington, DC
• Material Reflex, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina
  Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California

2012 |

• Tales and Tresses, Seedspace, Nashville, Tennessee
• Converge: Sonya Clark and Quisqueya Henriquez, McColl Art Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Sonya Clark, Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas
  Snyderman Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2009 |

• Combs: Pieces and Parts, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania

2008 |

• Loose Strands, Tight Knots, Walters Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
• Groom Room, Delaware Contemporary Art Center, Wilmington, Delaware
• Transformers: Sonya Clark and David Ellis,Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2006 |

• Sonya Clark: Tangles, Teeth, and Touch(catalog)Cannon Gallery. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
• Tangles and Teeth, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

2005 |

• Genes and Gestures(catalog)Art at Marygrove, Detroit, Michigan

2004 |

• PlexusBirke Art Gallery, Marshall University, Charleston, West Virginia

2003 |

• Reach, Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, Australia
• Sonya Clark, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
• Growth, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky

2002 |

• Sonya Clark, Galerie Goettlicher, Krems-Stein, Austria
• Sonya Clark and Syd Carpenter, Stella Jones Gallery. New Orleans, Louisiana.

2001 |

• African Inspirations: Sculpted Headwear(catalog)University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa (traveled through 2002)Indianapolis Art Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Sensory Perceptions, Galerie Francoise, e.s.f., Brooklandville, Maryland
• Couples, Duples and Dopplegangers, Anderson Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

2000 |

• Head Ways, YMI Cultural Center, Asheville, North Carolina
• Wall Talk, Anderson Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
• Cultural Memories, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Common Ties: Dots & Dashes, Beads & Beauty: Bolaji Campbell and Sonya Clark(catalog)Wisconsin Union Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin

1999 |

• Prepositions, Galerie Francoise, e.s.f., Brooklandville, Maryland
• Wall Talk, Anderson Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
• Heads and Tales, Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin

1998 |

• Wigs, Anderson Gallery Pontiac, Michigan
• Parted, Plaited and Piled, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
• Diadems, Museum of Decorative Art, Montreal, Canada

1997 |

• New Work, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Missouri
• Sonya Clark and Vernal Bogren Swift, Jayne Gallery. Kansas City, Missouri

1996 |

• Sonya Clark, Anderson Gallery, Pontiac, Michigan

1995 |

• The Culture WithinN. C. A. Gallery, Fisher Building, Detroit, Michigan
• Sonya Clark and Carole Harris, Anderson Gallery, Pontiac, Michigan

2018 |

• Declarations, Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, Virginia 
• The Language of Things, Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, New Zealand

2017 |

• Multiple Modernisms, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
• Current Reflections, Landmark Arts Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
• Southern Accent, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
• Reconstitution, LAXART, Los Angeles, California
• Constructing Identity, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
• Revival, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
• State of the Art, Frist Center for Visual Art, Nashville, Tennessee
• Power, Sprueth Mager, Los Angeles, California
• A Gathering of Voices, Rosenthal Art Gallery, Fayetteville, North Carolina
• Tell Me Why, Why Can’t We Live Together, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
• Flow of Form, Form of Flow: Material Morphosis, Galerie Karin Wimmer, Munich, Germany
• Outcomes and Revelations, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, California
• State of the World, Artspace, Kansas City, Missouri
• Weaving Dreams, Mini Artextil
  • Arte & Arte, San Francesco, Como, Italy
  • Chateau du Val Fleury, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • Montrouge, France
  • Venice, Italy

2016 |

• Premio Michetti, Museo Michetti, Fancavilla al Mare, Italy
• Baltimore Rising, Riggs Leidy Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
• At the Seams, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada
• The Things We Carry, Gibbes Museum, Charleston, South Carolina
• Material Mythologies, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
• State of the Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• The Faces of Politics: In/tolerance, Fuller Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts

2015 |

• Art Miami with Goya Contemporary, Miami, Florida
• Well Worn Truths, Masur Art Museum, Monroe, Louisiana
• Crafted: Objects in Flux, Museum of Fine Arts- Boston, Massachusetts
• Speaking with Thread, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri
• New Dominion, Mixed Greens, New York, New York
• A kind of confession, Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
• Fusion: Art of the 21st Century, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
• Featured Objects, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
• Crafting Civil (War) Conversations, McKissick Museum, Columbia, South Carolina
• Bead, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia
• Material Fix, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Selfies: 50 at 50, Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas
• Identities: African American Art from the Petrucci Foundation Collection, Schmucker Gallery, Gettysburg Collge, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Ben Shahn Center for the Arts, William Paterson University, Wayne, Pennsylvania

2014 |

• Eye of the Needle, KODE – Art Museums of Bergen, Norway and National Museum of Art and Architecture and Design, Olso, Norway
• Anywhere but now, Wilton House Museum, Richmond, Virginia
• Loving After Lifetimes of All This, La Esquina, Kansas City, Missouri
• I am: Money Matters, KCAD Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Brides of Anansi, Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
• State of the Art, Discovering American Art Now, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
• For Whom it Stands, Lewis Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
• Friends with Benefits, Contemporary Wing, Washington, DC
• Multiple Exposures, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
• Identity Shifts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
• 9th Fiber Biennial, Snyderman Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2013 |

• The Detroit Show, NCA Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
• Missed Connections, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
• In My Hair, Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, New York
• Arte Laguna, (catalog) Arsenale, Venice, Italy
• Dazzling Dancing Beads, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, South Dakota
• Scope Art Fair with Contemporary Wing Gallery, Scope Pavilion, New York, New York
• Nowhere Differentiable, (catalog) Simons Center Gallery, SUNY Stony Brook, New York
• 0 to 60, (catalog) North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
• Gone Viral, (catalog) Marion Art Gallery, Fredonia, New York

2012 |

• Soul of a City, Brooks Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
• NEXT: Artists selected from 30 Americans, (catalog) Contemporary Wing, Washington, DC
• Art of Seduction, Rouse Gallery, Howard County Community College, Columbia, Maryland
• In Material, (catalog) Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 8th Fiber Biennial, Snyderman Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Magical Visions, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

2011 |

• DUBH: dialogues in black (travels through 2012)
  American Irish Historical Society, New York, New York
  Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
• SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois with Snyderman Gallery
• Identify Yourself, Craft Alliance, St Louis, Missouri
• Material Girls, Reginald Lewis Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
  Cosby Museum of Art, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia

2010 |

• Global Africa, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
• New Material World: Rethreading Technology, Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
• True Self, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
• SOFA NY, (Snyderman-Works Gallery)Armory, New York, New York
• Hand+Mind, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Houston, Texas
• The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at The Boundaries of Contemporary Craft, Fuller Museum of Craft, Brockton, Massachusetts
• Social Skin, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
• Repurpose, Reuse, Recycle, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, California
• Reflecting and Recollecting, 1708 Satellite exhibit at Linden Row, Richmond, Virginia
• Wearable Art/Unwearable Fashion, Vis Arts Center, Rockville, Maryland
• 7^th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman – Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Wearing Spirit, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York, New York
• The Medium is the Message, Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, Wisconsin
• Fiber Clay Glass Stone, NCA Gallery, Detroit, Michigan

2009 |

• Generously Odd: Craft Now, Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky
• BlackDCAC, Washington, DC
• Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
• Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
• Complex Weave (travels through 2015), Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, New JerseyCenter for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MarylandLore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
• Decadence and Decay: The Mansion Project, Krueger-Scott Mansion, Newark, New Jersey
• Illinois, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, Illinois
• Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju, Korea
• Taking Time (travels through 2011), Birmingham Museum of Art, EnglandDovecot Studios, Edinburgh, ScotlandHarley Gallery, Worksop, England,Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, IrelandUniversity of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield, EnglandPlymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, EnglandPlatform Gallery, Clitheroe, England
• Anglophone Caribbean, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
• Devalue of Money, Visual Arts Center, Rockville, Maryland
• Uber Portrait, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington
• Upcycling, Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, California
• Hair on Fire, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, South Carolina
• Tasting Memory, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston, South Carolina

2008 |

• Political Circus, Ritter Gallery, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida
• Go Green, Dow Studios, Deer Isle, Maine
• SOFA Chicago, (Snyderman-Works Gallery)Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
• Manufractured, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon
• Second Lives, Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York
• Duets, Dow Studio, Deer Isle, Maine
• Embrace: Atlanta, Mason Muer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
• Political Craft, Society for American Craft, Boston, Massachusetts
• Altered Geometry: Contemporary Sculpture from the Collection, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
• Conceptual Edge, NCA Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
• Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits (Travels through 2011)UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CaliforniaChazen Museum, Madison, WisconsinNational Museum of African Art, Washington, DCCantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
• 6th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• the matter at hand, Memphis College of Art, Tennessee
• National Black Fine Art Show, NCA Gallery, Puck Building, New York, New York
• From Taboo to Icon, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2007 |

• Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
• Material Culture, Longwood Gallery @ Hostos. Bronx, New York
• Conceptual Edge, NCA Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
• and I am blue… McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, Illinois
• Well Dressed, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, New York
• Orion’s Belt, Sheridan Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada-Reno
• Hot House, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MichiganReading Museum of Art, Reading, Pennsylvania
• National Black Fine Art Show, NCA Gallery, Puck Building, New York, New York

2006 |

• Twisted Roots, (WPA/Corcoran Exchange Project)DCAC, Washington, DC
• Hair, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
• SOFA NYC, (Snyderman-Works Gallery)Armory, New York, New York
• Artificial Afrika, Gigantic Art Space, New York, New York
• 5th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• The Conceptual Edge, N. C. A. Gallery. Detroit, Michigan

2005 |

• Small Works, N. C. A. Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
• Material Inquiry, Macalaster College, St. Paul Minnesota
• Yoruba Beadwork and African American Art, Bead Museum, Glendale, Arizona
• Community: Fiber and Clay, Overture Gallery, Madison, WisconsinRiver Arts Center, Sauk City, WisconsinColucci Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin

2004 |

• A Decade of Art, Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
• Convergence/Divergence, Goldstein Museum of Design, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Draw Drawing, Gallery 32, London, England

2003 |

• Black Russian, Galerie Francoise, e.s.f., Brooklandville, Maryland
• Triennial, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
• Destinies:Yoruba Art in America-Sonya Clark, Michael Harris, Moyo Ogundipe and Moyo Okediji, Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
• Threading the Eye, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, Missouri
• Women on the Edge, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
• Contemporary Art of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasilia, BrazilMuseu de Arte de Brasilia, Brazil
• The Nature of Things, N. C. A. Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
• Pins and Needles, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Charmed Lives, Facere Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
• Breaking Ground, Gallery at The Park School, Baltimore, Maryland
• Hair Stories, (catalog)Scottsdale Museum of Art, Arizona (traveled through 2005)Chicago Cultural Center, IllinoisClark Atlanta University Art Gallery, GeorgiaMuseum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CaliforniaContemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LouisianaForty Acres Art Gallery, Sacramento, California
• 30 Years at Second Street Gallery, Second Street Gallery. Charlottesville, Virginia

2002 |

• 7th International Mini-Textiles Triennial, (catalog)Jean Lurcat Tapestry Museum, Angers, France. (traveled through 2005)St. Gall Textile Museum, Switzerland
• The Relevance of Making, Penland Gallery, Penland, North Carolina
• Made from Scratch, Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, Illinois
• The Audacious Bead, Bead Museum, Washington, D.C.
• The Freed Bead, Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia
• The Belles of Amherst, Mead Art Museum. Amherst, Massachusetts
• African Inspirations, Victor Valley Museum. Apple Valley California

2001 |

• Amherst College Alumni Exhibit, Mead Art Museum. Amherst, Massachusetts
• Objects of Affection, N.C.A. Gallery, Fisher Building, Detroit, Michigan

2000 |

• Out on a Limb, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio
• Crosscurrents 2000, (catalog)The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
• Women’s World: A Work in Progress, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, Connecticut
• Bead International 2000 Jurors: David Chatt, Ken Trapp, NanC Meinhardt, Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center. Athens, Ohio (traveled through 2002)Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, IllinoisPratt Museum, Homer, AlaskaUniversity of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AlaskaYork County Museum, Rock Hill, South CarolinaHolland Arts Council, Holland, MichiganMuseum in the Community, Hurricane, West Virginia
• Women’s Work: Sonya Clark, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, and Gabrielle Ellertson, Gallery 101, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin
• 7th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii (traveled through 2002)Kukui Grove Center Exhibition Hall, Lilue, HawaiiHarrison Museum of Art, Logan, UtahAmerican Cultural Center, Taipei, TaiwanNational Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TaiwanProvidence University, Taichung, TaiwanUniversity of Arkansas-Little RockWright State University, Dayton, OhioMurray State University, Murray, KentuckyArt Center at Hargate, St. Paul’s School, Concord, New HampshireEast Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, HawaiiMaui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului, Hawaii
• Mosaic: Culture and Identity in America, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia

1999 |

• Needle and Thread, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
• The Practiced Hand: Constructions and Sculptural Fiber, South Bend Regional Art Museum, South Bend, Indiana
• BEADZ! The Beaded Universe: Strands of Culture, American Craft Museum, New York, New York
• Wisconsin Triennial, (catalog)Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
• Cultural Influences in Craft, Penland Gallery, Penland, North Carolina
• Color Theory, College of Visual Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
• State of the Art, Gallery of Design, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ancestral Images: Contemporary Interpretations, George Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri
• NON-Function: Objects for Contemplation, Penland Gallery, Penland, North Carolina

1998 |

• Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity, (catalog)Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey (traveled through 2002)The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CaliforniaField Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IllinoisSt. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MissouriAnchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AlaskaCarlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaDetroit Museum of African American History, Detroit, MichiganSmithsonian Institution: National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• Le Corps Habite, Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, Bijoux d’Art. Montreal, Canada
• Clarity of Seduction, Network Gallery. Pontiac, Michigan.
• Transformed: Textiles as Creative Medium, Natal Society of the Arts, Durban, South Africa
• Exposed Treasures: Sonya Clark, Liz Cherry Jones, Joyce Scott, Tuttle Gallery, McDonogh, Maryland

1997 |

• Pure Vision: American Bead Artists, (catalog)Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (traveled through 2000)Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MassachusettsUniversity of Miami, Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, FloridaLamont Gallery, Exeter, New HampshirePhilbrook Museum, Tulsa, OklahomaLeedy Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MissouriIslip Art Museum, East Islip, New YorkMuseum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CaliforniaDecorative Arts Museum:Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, ArkansasBoise Art Museum, Boise, IdahoPensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida
• New Eyes for Ancient Gods: Yoruba Orisa in Contemporary Art, Afro American & African Studies Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (traveled through 1998)African American Cultural and Historical Museum, Washtenaw, Michigan
• Rituals and Celebrations of the African Diaspora, South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
• SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional ArtNavy Pier, Chicago, Illinois. Representation: Anderson Gallery.
• Crosscurrents: Journeys Within the African Diaspora, (catalog)Indianapolis Art Center. Indianapolis, Indiana
• Surface to Surface, Art and Design Gallery, School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
• What’s in the Air, (catalog)Kansas City Artists Coalition, Missouri
• Peripheral Visions: Contemporary African American Artists, Valencia College Art Gallery. Orlando, Florida
• 12th Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State. Warrensburg, Missouri

1996 |

• The Rebellious Bead, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington (traveled through 1999)Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
• NIFTA (New Initiatives for the Arts) Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Besser Museum, Alpena, Michigan (traveled through 1997)Northern Michigan University Art Museum, Marquette, MichiganSaginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MichiganMuseum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan
• Materials: Hard and Soft, (catalog)Meadows Gallery, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas
• Growing Into the 21st Century: New Acquisitions from 1990-1996, Hampton University Art Museum, Hampton, Virginia
• ARTstravaganza, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Art Reflects, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
• Word/Image, N.C.A. Gallery, Detroit, Michigan

1995 |

• The Ties That Bind, (catalog)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (traveled through 1996)Museum of African American History, Detroit, MichiganJesse Besser Museum, Alpena, MichiganNorthwood University, Midland, Michigan
• New Work from Cranbrook Academy of Art, John Wilson Center Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• Celebration of Style, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• New Directions, Hoffman Gallery, Portland, Oregon
• In/Justice, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
• Intersections Interstices, (catalog)Burlingham Building Pontiac, Michigan

1994 |

• Expressions of Faith and a Marginalized Existence, Dadian Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• Rhythms, N.C.A. Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
• Chautauqua International, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, New York
• Necessity and Memory, (catalog)Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
• Hard vs. Soft, (catalog)Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
• New Habits, Textile Arts Centre, Chicago, Illinois
• Antibodies at the End of the Millennium, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

1993 |

• Chautauqua International, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, New York

Exhibits

2012 |

• Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Gallery, Doha, Qatar

2009 |

• Anderson Gallery, VCU Arts, Richmond, Virginia

2008 |

• University of Nebraska – Lincoln
• Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey
• Icebox, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2007 |

• Haystack Community Center, Deer Isle, Maine
• Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, Indiana
• Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, New York

2006 |

• Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California
• King Arts Complex, Columbus, Ohio

2005 |

• Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, Massachusetts
• NCA Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
• Association of the Worldwide Study of the African Diaspora Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Florida A &M University, Tallahassee, Florida

2004 |

• Silver Cultural Arts Center, Plymouth, New Hampshire
• River Arts Center, Sauk City, Wisconsin
• Montreal Arts Interculturels, Montreal, Canada

2003 |

• Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
• Art Gallery, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky
• McLean Arts Center, Bloomington, Illinois

2002 |

• St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota,
• American Library Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
• McDonogh School, Owings Mills, Maryland
• College of Art at Kwame Nkrumah University, Kumasi, Ghana

2001 |

• Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland
• Madison Municipal Building Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
• Seippel Center for the Arts, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin

2000 |

• Gallery of Design, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Canberra School of Art, Australian National University

2005 |

• Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

2004 |

• Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, Maryland

2003 |

• Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky
• Milwaukee Area Technical College. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, Maryland

2002 |

• Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
• Waverly Center for Teen Parents, Baltimore, Maryland
• Columbia College, Art Department. Chicago, Illinois
• Boys and Girls Club, Madison, Wisconsin
• St. Paul’s Schools, Brooklandville, Maryland
• College Art Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2001 |

• St. Paul’s Schools, Brooklandville, Maryland
• International Creators: 13th Annual Series. Harbourfront Center, Toronto, Canada
• Textile Program, Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada
• Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
• Packer Collegiate, Brooklyn, New York
• City of Madison Minority Affairs Committee, Madison, Wisconsin
• Vera Court Girl Neighborhood Power, Madison, Wisconsin
• African American Ethnic Academy, Madison, Wisconsin
• Wilson School, Mequon, Wisconsin
• artWORKS Afterschool Program, Packer Community Center, Madison, Wisconsin
• Upward Bound, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin
• Fiber Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
• Seippel Center for the Arts, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
• Coolidge Elementary School, Detroit, Michigan
• Jefferson School, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
• Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina
• Textile Friends at Roslyn Chapel, Pencuik, Scotland
• Mahindra United World College, Pune, India

2000 |

• YMI Cultural Center. Asheville, North Carolina. 2000
• Park School, Baltimore, Maryland
• University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Art Department
• Sauk City Middle School, Sauk City, Wisconsin
• Memorial High School, Madison, Wisconsin
• Greater Madison Urban League, Teen Parenting Program, Madison, Wisconsin
• Charlottesville High School, Charlottesville, Virginia
• River Falls Public Library, River Falls, Wisconsin
• Milwaukee County Historical Society, Wisconsin
• Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin

1999 |

• Columbus Art Museum, Ohio
• Prevent Child Abuse Association, Madison, Wisconsin
• Greater Chicago Bead Society, Chicago, Illinois

2009 |

• Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

2008 |

• Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

2006 |

• American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York
• National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

2002 |

• Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri

2001 |

• Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
• University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa

1999 |

• Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
• National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.

1998 |

• Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada

1997 |

• Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
• National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.
• Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri

1996 |

• Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
• Hampton Museum, Hampton, Virginia
• Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.
• The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.

1994 |

• National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.

2007 |

• Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon

2006 |

• North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

2003 |

• Denver University, Denver, Colorado
• Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Michigan
• Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky

2002 |

• Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

1999 |

• College of Visual Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

1998 |

• Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
• Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina

1997 |

• Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Michigan
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
• Surface Design Association Conference, Lawrence, Kansas

1996 |

• Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
• University of Kansas -Lawrence, Lawrence, Kansas

1994 |

• Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2016 |

• Keynote, American Craft Council Conference, Omaha, Nebraska
• College Art Association, “The Black Craftsman Situation”, Washington, DC

2015 |

• International Society for Improvised Music, Chateaux d’oex, Switzerland

2014 |

• Embodied Knowledge: Sensory Studies in the 21st Century: University of Wisconsin-Madison

2010 |

• A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, Towson University

2009 |

• Art of Fine Craft, Lincoln, Nebraska
• Embodying the Sacred, VCU Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
• Recycling in African Art, Harn Museum, Gainesville, Florida
• Making Past, Present and Future Conference, Haystack, Deer Isle, Maine
• Panelist, Transformations, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

2005 |

• Craft and Design: Hand, Mind and Creative Process, Haystack, Deer Isle, Maine,

2004 |

• Craft and Design: Hand, Mind and Creative Process, Haystack, Deer Isle, Maine

2003 |

• Porter Colloquium on African American Art, Howard University, Washington, DC

2002 |

• College Art Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1999 |

• N. C. A. National Conference, Detroit, Michigan

1998 |

• Bead Society of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Mid-Year Art Conference, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit, Michigan

1997 |

• N. C. A. National Conference, Detroit, Michigan

1994 |

• N. C. A. National Conference, Detroit, Michigan
• Fiber Now: Student Conference, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2011 |

• Tacit: Recent regional alumni from VCU Crafts, Visual Art Center of Richmond

2008 |

• Familiar Faces, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VirginiaDevorah Sperber, Kim Kamens, Xiang Yang, Lia Cook, Na-Jung Kim

2007 |

• Hush Lush, Piedmont Center for the Arts, Martinsville, VirginiaJack Wax, Debbie Quick, Susie Ganch, Xenobia Bailey, Susie Brandt, Bean FinneranXenobia Bailey, Natasha St. Michael, Michal Zehavi, Nancy Koenigsberg , Kyoung Ae ChoRachel Hayes, Piper Shepard

2004 |

• Repeat, Repeat, Design Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Co-curator: Jennifer Angus)Jerry Bleem, Susie Brandt, Kyoung Ae , Cho and Piper Shepard

2000 |

• Joyful Blues: Pattern in Yoruba Adire Cloth (Photography curator), Gallery of Design, School of Human Ecology