Sonya Clark art news: WINTER 2011 Greetings! Welcome to 2011. I wish you long stretches of creative time to pursue old interests and discover some new ones. I look forward to doing the same this summer at an artist residency at the McColl Center in North Carolina and at the continuation of the Artists Research Fellowship I received from the Smithsonian Institution. I am already making plans for 2012 as part of the fellowship I received from the Civitella Ranieri in Italy. Later this month, I am off to my alma mater, Cranbrook Academy of Art, to give an artist's lecture.  Another school I attended, Amherst College, recently published a piece by Katherine Jamieson on my work in the Amherst magazine.   Also in press, check out the Global Africa Project catalog from the exhibit of the same title in NYC. It's a 224 page full color book and my work is featured on the back cover. An artist I really respect, Kehinde Wiley, is on the front.  On the newsstands is the current issue of American Craft magazine with a review by Christy DeSmith, Data Processing, that features my work.  I am in two new exhibits in February. One at at the Reginald Lewis Museum in Baltimore and the traveling Taking Time exhibit opens in a new venue in the UK. Check out the details for these new and other continuing exhibits below. Shortly the school semester begins again at Virginia Commonwealth University.  The students and faculty return and I always feel renewed by their creative presence. For now, I am overwhelmingly blessed by all these opportunities and your continued support.  My best, Sonya Visiting Artist Lecture THURSDAY, January 27 @ 6: Cranbrook Academy of Art 39221 Woodward Avenue Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48304 Exhibitions OPENING SOON February 10, 2011 - October 16, 2011 Exhibit: MATERIAL GIRLS Where: Reginald Lewis Museum, Baltimore, Maryland Curated by Dr. Michelle Joan Wilkinson,  the Material Girls exhibition highlights works that play on unique cultural meanings, personal memories and social agendas. The artists are Maya Freelon Asante, Chakaia Booker, Sonya Clark, Torkwase Dyson, Maren Hassinger, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Joyce J. Scott and Renee Stout. February 12 - April 4 Exhibit: TAKING TIME: CRAFT AND THE SLOW REVOLUTION Where: Plymouth City Museum, United Kingdom CONTINUING... through January 21, 2011 Exhibit: MAMI WATA: Arts for Water Spirits Where: Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Want a catalog? Order it here through February 1, 2011 Exhibit: TAKING TIME: CRAFT AND THE SLOW REVOLUTION Where: Gracefield Arts Centre, 28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries, United Kingdom through February 6, 2011 Exhibit: NEW MATERIALITY - Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Craft Where: Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts through May 15, 2011 Exhibit: GLOBAL AFRICA PROJECT Where: Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NYC Want a catalog? Order it here. through July 10, 2011 Exhibit: TRUE SELF: The Search for Identity in Modern and Contemporary Art Where: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin Some background information I'm chair of the Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to this I was a Baldwin Bascom Professor of Creative Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  I went to Cranbrook Academy of Art for my MFA,  the Art Institute of Chicago for my BFA, and before that, Amherst College for a BA in psychology. My work has been exhibited in over 250 venues in the United Kingdom, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, Taiwan, Austria, Australia, Ghana, France, Switzerland, and throughout the USA. I have been able to pursue my studio practice because of generous honors and opportunities such as a Pollock-Krasner Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Residency in Italy, a Red Gate Residency in China, a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship, and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.