Linda Day Clark
Alma mater
Known forPhotography

Linda Day Clark is a photographer, professor, and curator noted for capturing everyday life in African American rural and urban environments, particularly in Gee's Bend.[1][2] Her work has been shown in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Lehman College, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum.[3][4][5]

Early life and education

Day Clark moved to Maryland when she was 8 years old. She received her Associate of Arts from Howard Community College, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1994, and a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Delaware in 1996.[6][7]

Career

Day Clark was a program associate at the Baltimore Museum of Art until 1998, when left to become a professor of photography at Coppin State University.[6][8]

In 2002, the New York Times gave Linda Day Clark an assignment to photograph the women quilters of Gee's Bend, a small town southwest of Selma, Alabama, "capturing the red clay soil, laid bare in a dirt road, so rich in color that it seems digitally tweaked but also linked to the rich colors in the quilts."[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Linda Day Clark: The Gee's Bend Photographs". The Walters Art Museum. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  2. ↑ Juliette, Rebecca Juliette (November 7, 2017). "BmoreArt's Picks: Baltimore Art Galleries, Openings, and Events November 7–13". BmoreArt. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  3. ↑ Boxer, Sarah (November 9, 2001). "PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Black Photographers Who Are Trying to Get Blackness Right". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Cotter, Holland (February 16, 2001). "PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Nihilists Beware: A Swath of Black Life, 'Family of Man' Style". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ "In the Arms of the Elders". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Shapiro, Stephanie (January 23, 1997). "The Beauty of North Avenue Photos: Linda Day Clark turns lens on her community, making extraordinary connections with everyday people she finds there". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Linda Day Clark". Baker Artist Portfolio. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Art Gallery Talk: Photographer Linda Day Clark Discusses Her Time with the Gee's Bend Quilters". Lehman College E-Newsletter. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  9. ↑ Schwendener, Martha (February 19, 2015). "Gee's Bend Quilts in 2 Shows at Lehman College". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 2, 2019.


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