Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) and the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) are pleased to co-present “Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other,” a major exhibition of the pioneering fiber artist that showcases her large-scale, community-centered, and participatory projects, including “The Beaded Prayers Project” (1998-ongoing), “The Hair Craft Project” (2014) and the “Monumental Cloth” series (2019).
The Houston presentation of “We Are Each Other,” hosted within both HCCC’s and HMAAC’s galleries, extends the traveling exhibition’s tour, which was co-organized by the Cranbrook Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, and the Museum of Art and Design. Clark’s work centers on race and Black experience, and the exhibition is rooted in both audience and context, as each organizing institution is located in American cities with substantial populations of residents with a lineage to the African diaspora, and each is dedicated to celebrating and collecting contemporary art and craft traditions.
