Jessica Clark
Artist & Educator
EDUCATION:
2019 MA Arts Administration, University of Kentucky. (18 hours completed)
2010 MFA Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design.
2005 BA Studio Art, University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
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2022- Present Visual Arts Teacher, Santa Fe Indian School, Santa Fe, NM
2021- 2022 Creative Arts Instructor, Haywood Community College, Clyde, NC
2019- 2022 Visual Arts Teacher, Invest Collegiate Imagine, Asheville, NC.
2017- 2019 Adjunct Professor, Intro to Drawing, Figure Drawing, UNC-Pembroke, Pembroke, NC.
2012- 2018 Visual Arts Teacher, Lumberton Senior High. Lumberton, NC.
2011- 2012 Visual Arts Teacher, Grades 4-8, Fairgrove Middle School, Fairmont, NC.
2009 Teaching Assistant, Drawing I, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.
AREAS of STUDIO EXPERTISE:
Painting, Drawing, Native American Traditional Arts
SOLO, TWO- and THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2022 UNCW Honoring Southeast NC Indigenous Peoples Public Art Project, Wilmington, NC
2018 Postmodern Natives, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
Tradition, Family & Popculture, Native American Studies Center, University of South Carolina- Lancaster, Lancaster, SC 2017 A Southeastern View, Trickster Art Gallery, Schaumburg, IL
2016 Jessica Clark: Lumbee Artist, Black Creek Arts Council, Hartsville, SC
2015 Viewpoint, The Museum of the Southeast American Indian, Pembroke, NC
2012 Reflections, Carolina Civic Center, Lumberton, NC
2011 Native Contemplation, Guilford Native American Art Gallery and Gift Shop, Greensboro Cultural Center, Greensboro, NC
A Native Perspective, The Museum of the Southeast American Indian, Pembroke, NC
2010 Lumbee: Postmodern Natives, Savannah, GA (Thesis Exhibition)
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Reckoning and Resilience: North Carolina Art Now, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Contemporary Native American Artist Invitational, FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2019 We Never Left, Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL
2018 Contemporary Art Forms by America’s First People II, The Arts Council Fayetteville/Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC Artists & Mentors, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2017 Lumbee Days. National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
ROOTS Week 2017- Back to the Basics, Down to the Roots. Arden, NC
ArtFields 2017, Lake City, SC
2016 One Night Art Event, Entrepreneurship Incubator, UNC-Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
Contemporary Art Forms by America’s First People, The Arts Council, Fayetteville, NC
2015 Heal Our Land, Southeastern Family Violence Center, Lumberton, NC
ArtFields 2015, Lake City SC
2014 Summer Art Show and Sale, The Museum of the Southeast American Indian, Pembroke, NC
Painting North Carolina 2014, Germanton Art Gallery and Winery, Germanton, NC
The Art of Living Well, Southeastern Health Park, Ambulatory Surgery Center, Lumberton, NC
Beyond Art, Carolina Civic Center, Lumberton, NC
2013 20th Annual Southeast Invitational Miniature Art Show, Germanton Art Gallery and Winery, Germanton, NC
Beyond Art, Carolina Civic Center, Lumberton, NC
2012 Four Directions: A Journey Through Native American Art, Student Union Gallery, UNC-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Public Schools of Robeson County Faculty Art Show, Carolina Civic Center, Lumberton, NC
19th Annual Southeast Invitational Miniature Art Show, Germanton Art Gallery and Winery, Germanton, NC
2011 Many Journeys, Charlotte Museum of History, Charlotte, NC
21st Annual NC American Indian Juried Art Exhibit, Guilford Native American Art Gallery and Gift Shop, Greensboro
Cultural Center, Greensboro, NC
An Artistic Quest, River People Music and Culture Festival, Pembroke, NC
2010 A Celebration of Lumbee Pioneers, 1St Annual Art Auction & Dinner, Pembroke, NC
High Point Furniture Market, High Point, NC
2009 Low Country Babylon, Savannah, GA
Perspectives, Lacoste, France
Open Studio Night, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Vernissage, Lacoste, France
2008 Open Studio Night, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2007 Open Studio Night, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
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AWARDS, GRANTS and RESIDENCIES:
2018 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
Artistic Assistance Project Development Grant, Alternate ROOTS, Atlanta, GA
2016 GOLDEN Educator Residency, New Berlin, NY
2015 Artistic Assistance Project Development Grant, Alternate ROOTS, Atlanta, GA
Joan Mitchell Visual Arts Scholar, Alternate ROOTS, Atlanta, GA
2014 ‘Woman to Watch,’ Conference of American Indian Women of Proud Nations, Pembroke, NC
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INVITED TALKS AND INTERVIEWS:
2023 "An Inter-American Conversation on Indigeneity, Art & Education," Amazon Lab at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC.
2022 Nasher Museum Podcast, "Reckoning and Resilience," Artist Jessica Clark and Scholar Nancy Fields.
2016 Special Guest Speaker. Art.Write.Now.DC 2016-17, Department of Education, Washington, DC
Professional Art Practices, Professor Carla Rokes, UNC-Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
2015 Professional Art Practices, Professor Carla Rokes, UNC-Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
2014 Artist Interview, ‘Voices of the Lumbee.’ (Documentary Film)
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PROFESSIONAL, or ACADEMIC CONFERENCE, WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS:
2018 National Art Education Association National Convention, Seattle, WA
2017 Southeastern Rivercane Basket Weaving Workshop, Museum of the Southeast American Indian, UNC-Pembroke,
Pembroke, NC
2016 Artistic Assistance Project Development Panel. Alternate ROOTS, Atlanta GA
Presenter. With These Hands: a Lumbee artist and a Lumbee Anthropologist in Conversation, “Twelfth Annual Southeast
Indian Studies Conference,” UNC-Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
Native Artist Panel, 2015-16 Native American Speaker Series, UNC-Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
2015 Presenter. ROOTS Week Annual Meeting and Artist Retreat, Arden, NC
National Art Education Association national Convention, New Orleans, LA
2012 Presenter. Southeastern Native Peoples Living in a Postmodern World, “Fourth Annual meeting of the Native American
and Indigenous Studies Association,” Uncasville, CT
2011 Southeastern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference, Greensboro, NC
Plein Aire Painting Workshop with Heiner Hertling, Germanton, NC
Presenter. 2011 Southeast Indian Studies Conference, UNC-Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
AFFILIATIONS/ MEMBERSHIPS:
2019- Present College Arts Association, New York, NY
2015- Present Alternate ROOTS, Atlanta, GA
2014- Present National Art Education Association, Alexandria, VA
2011- 2014 Chair. River Roots Arts Guild, Pembroke, NC
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2018 Jessica Clark, “Lumbee: Postmodern Natives,” Postmodern Native: Contemporary Lumbee Art, Exhibition Catalogue,
Greenville Museum of Art: 7- 15.
2017 Dr. Nancy Puchner, “The Community of Contemporary Lumbee Art,” First American Art Magazine, No. 16 (Fall 2017):
35- 39.
2015 America Meredith, “Faithfully Rendered: Naturalism in Contemporary Native American Portrait Painting,” First American
Art Magazine, No. 9 (Winter 2015/16): 40- 47.
2014 Nancy Strickland Fields, “Artist Profile: Jessica Clark, Lumbee,” First American Art Magazine, No. 5 (Winter 2014): 16- 21.
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