Linda Day Clark

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Linda Day Clark is an American photographer, professor, and curator who focuses on everyday life in African American communities, especially in Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Her photographs have been shown in major museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Lehman College Art Gallery, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum.

She moved to Maryland when she was eight years old. She earned an Associate of Arts from Howard Community College, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1994, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Delaware in 1996. Day Clark worked as a program associate at the Baltimore Museum of Art until 1998, when she became a photography professor at Coppin State University.

In 2002, the New York Times assigned her to photograph the women quilters of Gee’s Bend, describing the red clay soil as rich in color that seems digitally tweaked but is connected to the quilts’ colors.