Linda Day Clark

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]

Linda Day Clark
Alma mater
Known forPhotography

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. 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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