CLAUDE LOCKHART CLARK


Claude Lockhart Clark (the woodcarver; scholar) is the son of Claude Clark (the printmaker & easel painter). His sculpture and skills as a family chronologist are featured in a book titled: (To The Bottom)

"Honoring The Ancestors: The Woodcarvings of Claude Lockhart Clark", written by cultural anthropologist, June Anderson. This book was published by California Academy of Sciences and distributed by the University of Washington Press. It now available. If you want autographed copies of the book be sure to contact use concerning cost and shipping.

Clark has helped his father with art and educational projects since 1967. That first year he produced a set of African and African American art slides to be used in his father's Black Studies survey course on art, offered the Spring of 1968, at Merritt Community College. As his father's curriculum expanded, the younger Clarks means of production developed to a point where slides were mass produced from his home lab on a regular bases. He has also been instrumental in supplying his father with research material on African Art and culture. On several trips to Africa during the middle 1970s and 1980's, Clark served as photographer; recording art and architecture. He has recorded numerous private and public art collections throughout the United States.

When the information age got on the way the younger Clark jump into it the summer of 1991. As the technology for imagery, photography and electronic publishing advanced, the younger Clark's technological skills changed with it. By 1993 he was able to design and build his own computers and workstation for his father's next project that wouldn't come until 1997.

On this project he has served as project director; web gallery curator, archivist, preparator of exhibits, writer, historian and editor. Photo scanning, color corrections, web page layout, use of hyperlinkaging, text and Image animations are his as well.

What begain as a simple web site for his father, in May 1997, quickly grew into a web metropolis for African vendors. The web site, “African Metropolis” was finally launched late October 1997.

Clark is also the founder of an organiztion bearing the same name.

“African Metropolis” is designed to serve and promote creative development of African cultures.

For more information, about the younger Clark, read Honoring The Ancestors.

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