Sonya Clark retrospective “We Are Each Other” fills two Houston galleries with participatory textile works

The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is showing Sonya Clark’s retrospective "We Are Each Other," a survey of roughly 30 years of work that occupies both gallery spaces and highlights Clark’s social-practice, community-based projects.

The exhibition, co-organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and Cranbrook Art Museum, includes collaborative works that investigate Black hair, textiles and American history. The program includes a monumental reconstruction of a Confederate truce flag fragment Clark researched at the Smithsonian, and a participatory installation called Reconstruction Exercise that invites visitors to weave on an 11-yard scroll.

"She always says hair artists are the original textile artists," the program host said on-air, describing Clark’s long engagement with hair as material and cultural history. The broadcast noted that Clark’s work includes the Hair Craft Project and the Beaded Prayers Project, and that related companion works are on view a few blocks away at the Houston Museum of African American Culture.

The exhibition schedule includes public educational events such as weekend weaving demonstrations, and the broadcast described interactive elements — including rubbings and a weaving loom — that allow visitors to take home a record of their participation. The transcript names partner institutions and situates the show in a network of museums and community activities.

No ticketing, admission price or exhibition end date was provided in the transcript; visitors should consult the hosting institutions for hours and admission details.