 | Sonya Clark, keynote speaker, is the Chair of the Craft/Material Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond, Virginia. She holds an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and bachelor degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and Amherst College. She has been in over 50 solo exhibitions. Her work has been in 150 museums and galleries in the UK, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, Ghana, Taiwan, Austria, Australia, France, Switzerland, and throughout the USA including the Newark Museum, UCLA Fowler Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. Clark is the recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts 2009 Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Award, Chenven Award, Lillian Elliott Award, a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Residency. Her work draws attention to our responsibility to the history of our ancestors and the future of our descendents through the stories held in objects, materials and processes. The Beaded Prayer Project, designed and directed by Clark, involved 4500 participants from over 30 countries making objects that celebrated our shared humanity.
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