WhoFish - Local Events and Activities

Title:	June Clark: Harlem Quilt
Date:	12/17/2022 - 3/26/2023
Address:	The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, FL 34243
Location:	Sarasota, FL
Hours:	10:00am - 5:00pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $25
Web Page:	https://www.ringling.org/events/june-clark-harlem-quilt
Contact Info:	941-359-5700

Details:

June Clark’s solo exhibition at The Ringling marks the Harlem Quilt’s first presentation at a US museum since its unveiling at the Studio Museum in New York City in 1997. It is a re-introduction to this immersive installation, which consists of over three hundred individual pieces of fabric, each with a black-and-white photo transferred onto its surface. Clark left Harlem for Canada at the height of New York City’s riots and political unrest of the late 1960s. Once in Toronto, the artist began making photographs and co-founded the Women’s Photography Co-op in 1972. Her dedication to photography was recognized in an artistic residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem from 1996 –1997 where Clark produced her seminal piece Harlem Quilt. In Harlem for the residency and coming to terms with being home, Clark made photographs of street scenes, building facades, people, and store windows in New York City neighborhoods between 110th and 168th streets. Harlem Quilt expresses the artist’s deep love and sensibility for Harlem’s community through a unique method of quilt-making where a lightbulb above each image creates a sense of intimacy and commemoration.