Linda's profile

Linda Day Clark is a nationally exhibited visual artist and scholar. She uses the camera to get closer, to touch, relate and inform.

Ms. 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. She is currently a professor at Coppin State University.

Her current project, The Gee's Bend Photographs, has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2010 her solo show traveled to the Myrtle Beach Art Museum, South Carolina. Throughout Day Clark's career, her work has been exhibited in many prestigious museums and galleries. Ms. Day Clark's work is also accessible in important photography books, including MacArthur award winning Deborah Willis' Reflections in Black: A History of African American Photography 1840-1999, the Brooklyn Museum of Arts Committed to the Image: A Half Century of Black Photographers in America, and The Spirit of Family by Al and Tipper Gore. Ms. Day Clark's creations are in many private collections and institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, The James E. Lewis Museum of Art, The Maryland Historical Society, The Reginald Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, the Smithsonian, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.