Spotlight: Women’s History Month at the NMWA
Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend — on display through May 31 — offers a mid-career survey of a renowned textile and mixed-media artist whose work addresses issues of race and class, celebrates Blackness, and reimagines history to acknowledge and celebrate rather than omit and obfuscate Black contributions.Featuring nearly 100 works from the past 25 years, the exhibition includes Clark’s signature sculptures and artifacts that incorporate pocket combs, human hair, and thread — such as Afro Abe II, in which a five-dollar bill is embellished with black threads to form an Afro atop the head of the 16th U.S. president.