Nannette Acker Clark

Philadelphia sculptor Nannette Acker Clark earned a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, and an MFA from University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

Clark has exhibited widely at institutions throughout the United States, including the American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Arts and Design), New York City; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, MO; African American Museum in Philadelphia; and PAFA. Her work is inspired by Congolese philosophical understandings, and related practices, that see the sun as a metaphor for the soul.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Artist Info


Born

1948

Philadelphia, PA

Gender

Female

Nationality

American

Heritage

African American