Ms Linda Day Clark This is Me

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1. 1. www.annapolistimes.com

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   Published on: 6/22/2007   Last Visited: 7/11/2007

   Linda Day Clark shows the beauty of the Gee's Bend quilters through her lens Baltimore Times - Article - local news
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   Linda Day Clark
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   Linda Day Clark shows the beauty of the Gee's Bend quilters through her lens
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   Clark was in town to photograph the African-American women of the town whose quilts have put the quaint town on the map.
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   Linda Day Clark: The Gee's Bend Photographs will be on display at the Walters Art Museum from now until September 2, 2007.

2. 2. Marc Steiner Show

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   Published on: 5/5/2006   Last Visited: 9/13/2007

   Then Marc talks with Linda Day Clark, an associate professor of fine arts at Coppin State University, about her companion exhibit, The Gee's Bend Photographs.
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   Then Marc talks with Linda Day Clark, an associate professor of fine arts at Coppin State College, about her companion exhibit the Gee's Bend Photographs.

3. 3. Baltimore City Paper: Double Vision (June 14 - June 20, 2000)

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   Published on: 11/1/2002   Last Visited: 11/1/2002

   The woman is his wife, Linda Day Clark. She is a gifted photographer in her own right and holds a master's degree in photography from the University of Delaware. Besides working as a commercial photographer, Day Clark, 37, is an associate professor of art at Coppin State College and has exhibited her work in galleries around the country.
   
   Clark says his wife is his salvation. When asked how he remains functional despite his illness, he credits "Linda, art, and therapy."
   
   The couple met in the late 1980s at MICA, where Day Clark was taking continuing-education courses. "He was finishing up and I was starting," Day Clark says. "He said he'd like to photograph me, you know, like, 'Come see my etchings.'"
   
   The two became friends and began dating after a year. Eventually, Day Clark and her then-8-year-old son moved into Clark's Reservoir Hill home.
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   "Linda says I made a nest and looked for a woman to fill it," Clark says with a laugh.
   
   Day Clark graduated from MICA in 1994 with a bachelor's of fine arts and was awarded the school's $4,000 Photographic Travel Grant. She and Clark used the money to finance a trip to Nigeria. By staying with locals, they were able to experience the culture firsthand and make their money last for two months.
   
   "Nigeria wasn't good for me at first," Clark says. "I'm in a tropical country and bam!, I'm back in Vietnam. There had been a recent coup, and the upheaval added to my problem. There were soldiers walking around with machine guns."
   
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   Clark felt he was on the verge of a mental breakdown, but says he decided, "I have a choice. Inside, I was feeling ghastly, but there was so much beauty all around."
   
   His emotional distress wasn't the only challenge; the couple felt compelled to adopt their hosts' culture, one that required Day Clark to perform all of the household chores for her family. She had to carry water back to the house, prepare breakfast, wash clothes--all without help from her husband--before she could get out her camera. "The Nigerian people took us in," Clark says, "but we had to live by their rules."
   
   The turning point for Clark came when he spoke to one of the soldiers patrolling the streets. Thanks to Nigerian custom, the soldier referred to Clark with a familiar designation, one that showed respect for the artist's age. "He said, 'Grandpa, what's wrong?'" Clark recalls. "The symbol that was troubling me offered to help me."
   
   Such friendliness allowed the photographer to open himself to "the spirit." One night, at the depth of his despair, Clark says he was reminded why he and Day Clark had made the trip in the first place. "I heard voices, and it was my ancestors. They were saying how glad they were that I'd come back." The tide turned for him, and the experience took on a different tone. As if to solidify their relationship to the place, to show that it had become home and its people family, the couple married during their months in Nigeria.
   
   Ask Clark to show his Nigerian photos and you won't see the usual travel shots.