Biographic Sketch
Linda Day Clark
Linda Day Clark is a nationally exhibited visual artist. She is a community advocate working for change as an artist, educator and scholar. Mrs. Day Clark’s media appearances include a feature as a “Woman of Triumph” by Maryland Public Television and “Winners: Linda Day Clark” by WJZ Channel 13. Her photographs have been called, “Simple and stunningly beautiful.” by the Baltimore Sun; “What art is all about.” by The City Paper and “Winners!” by the New York Times. She uses the camera to get closer to people, to sustain eye-to-eye contact, to relate to strangers, to touch, and inform.
Mrs. Day Clark earned an A.A. from Howard Community College, a B.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art, and a Masters of Fine Art from University of Delaware. In addition to her fine art training, the whispers of her ancestors greatly inform her imagery. In 1998, Mrs. Day Clark left her employment as an Educator at the Baltimore Museum of Art and accepted a position as an Associate Professor of Fine Art at Coppin State College, a historically black institution.
Her many exhibitions include galleries and museums in New York City, Maryland, California, Delaware, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Missouri, Virginia, Massachusetts and The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. Mrs. Day Clark’s work is accessible in important books on photography including one authored by the MacArthur award winning Deborah Willis Kennedy, Reflections in Black: A History of African American Photography 1840-1999 and the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Committed to the Image, by Barbara Millstein, and the upcoming Spirit of Family by Al and Tipper Gore. Mrs. Day Clark’s creations are in many collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State College and the Maryland Historical Society.