Sonya Clark

Sonya Clark creates installations and objects rooted in craft’s legacy. She employs the language of textiles politics of hair, and the power of text to celebrate Blackness while interrogating historical imbalances. She is a full professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts. She has received awards from many organizations including United States Artists, Pollock-Krasner, Art Prize, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work has been exhibited in over 500 venues worldwide.

Flipped Script, an expansive art project, uses Twist, Clark's coily curled typeface created to challenge the Roman alphabet’s dominance in over 70% of the world’s languages as a colonial tool. Imbued with the power of mark making and named by poet Rita Dove, Twist mimics the curl pattern of African hair. It reforms the Roman alphabet like Black Vernacular English bends language. It seeks in movement of wrists and fingers, a re-embodied script to engage political expression, literature, and visual art.