Sonya Clark: “We Are Each Other”

CRITIC’S PICK: This exhibition, co-organized by the High, Detroit’s Cranbrook Art Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, combines and displays participatory projects activated within each city’s respective communities. Included is the room-sized installation “The Beaded Prayers Project” (1998-ongoing), inspired by African amulet traditions; “The Hair Craft Project” (2014), which pairs photography and fiber art, documenting the work of Black hairdressers; and the “Monumental Cloth” series (2019), which recreates at massive scale the flag of truce used to help broker the end of the Civil War. A press release says Clark “intertwines craft and community and incorporates handwork in her projects to promote new collective encounters across racial, gender and socioeconomic lines and to address difficult questions of exclusion in American society.” — Kevin C. Madigan