Thea Clark is a recent North Carolina transplant from New Jersey. Her background is in metal, enamel, and fiber jewelry which she has made and taught for many years. Her art also encompasses, sculpture, installation, and mixed media collage on paper. She is a fellowship and award winning artist with an extensive record of national and international exhibitions and publications. Her current work examines the impact of the natural and the manmade worlds in conflict. She approaches the subject matter abstractly and from a future historical viewpoint. As a child in New York City she learned about Hudson River pollution or "what Man was doing to Nature" via educational exhibits at the Museum of Natural History. She moved to San Francisco CA in adolescence where recurring droughts taught her "what Nature can do to Man". These experiences set in motion a lifelong preoccupation with the environment. Influenced by research, her work incorporates various domestic textiles or construction materials with found objects alongside scientific signifiers such as isobar and flooding maps. Solo and two person exhibits: Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, New Jersey Center of Visual Arts, Velvet DaVinci (San Francisco, CA). Select group exhibits: Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, Newark Museum, Museo Franz Mayer (Mexico), Society for Contemporary Crafts (Boston), Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association (Munich) University of Birmingham (Great Britain),Rutgers University (NJ), Indiana University, Rochester Institute of Technology (NY), Slippery Rock University (PA), Museum of Arts, Arnhem (Netherlands). Her work is in private collections in the US and Japan.
You can currently find her jewelry classes at the Sawtooth School of Visual Arts in Winston Salem, NC. Inquiry about lessons in her Greensboro studio. theaclark@verizon.net, theaclark.com