![]() “I find myself reminding people that my work is not timely. If that seems in step with the racial reckoning of the moment as Confederate flags are lowered and monuments fall all over the south, understand, please: There is no “moment,” Clark said. Her work “Unraveling,” begun in 2015, is a public unwinding of the Confederate battle flag, thread by thread, as a response to the police killings of Black people. In Clark, a professor of art at Amherst College, the museum has chosen an artist with a deep commitment to picking apart America’s whitewashed history of racial brutality in slow, deliberate ways. “There are a lot of really, really creative people out there who are struggling. She wants to use the money to “pay it forward,” she added. “It wasn’t even on my radar,” Clark said. ![]() They don’t even know if they’re being considered. Previous winners include Daniela Rivera (2019), Titus Kaphar (2018), Sam Durant (2017), and Barkley Hendricks (2016).Īrtists can’t apply for the Rappaport prize. ![]() This is enough to bring a smile to any artist’s lips: The museum was calling to say that Clark had been chosen as the 2020 recipient of the $35,000 Rappaport Prize, an annual award funded by local philanthropists Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport. ![]()
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