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Clark returned to Virginia and taught classes in illustration at the Art Club of Richmond and was an instructor at the Richmond Training School for Kindergartners. About 1916 she and the Richmond artist Nora Houston established the Atelier. Their studio became a training ground for a generation of Virginia artists, including Theresa Pollak, who later founded the art program at the University of Richmond and the art school at Virginia Commonwealth University. Intending to revive the long-moribund eighteenth-century Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts, Clark and Houston in 1919 founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and Handicrafts, which later merged with the Atelier and became part of the Richmond Academy of Arts. A painter primarily of portraits, landscapes, and religious scenes, Clark exhibited canvases at the Carnegie Institute, in Pittsburgh, and at Richmond’s Valentine Museum. Her oil painting
click to enlarge All Out / All In at Wassaic Project The nine artists in All Out / All In explore the increasingly arbitrary boundary between public and private spaces, identities, and rituals with a particular emphasis on the potential of the home as a space for healing. Three standouts: Rose Nestler s humorous fabric sculptures emphasize the ways in which women perform (or are made to perform) through articles of clothing; Aisha Tandiwe Bell s traps mark the delicate balance between protecting what you have and cooperating in imprisoning power structures; Natalie Baxter s reconceptualized eagles invert America s toxic masculinity. Other artists include Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Mark Fleuridor, Nyugen Smith, Amanda L. Edwards, Liz Nielsen, and Jen Dwyer. Through March 27.