AFRICAN METROPOLIS PROFILES in ART

HIGH POINTS IN CLAUDE LOCKHART CLARK'S CAREER

AS WEBMASTER; ARCHIVIST, SCHOLAR, TEACHER & ARTIST

WEBMASTER: Co-founder (along with Norma J. Johnson) of AFRICAN METROPOLIS web site and organization in October 1997. Clark is a web site designer and administrator: of NORMA J's SIGNATURE COLLECTION, November 1997. Clark's first art web site, AMANA JOHNSON was launched December 2000. For more information about web sites go to WORLD METROPOLIS NETWORK. Designs and assembles computer system units since 1996.

Founder of AFRICAN METROPOLIS PROFILES February 14, 1998; beginning with DR. DAVID C. DRISKELL. Rev. Daima M. Clark, Clark's mother, edited and formatted the first profile.

ARCHIVIST: Recorded his own family genealogy and history (Booth Archives) and at present is developing a Metropolis Archives.

SCHOLAR:   Essay entitled "HOW AFRICA WAS UNDERDEVELOPED ECONOMICALLY" was first published in "Black Families, in 1999; later  published again in "African By Nature", year 2000. Traveled and worked on photo journals in EGYPT, concerning ancient civilization and archeology, during the summers of 1985 and 1987. In 1986 wrote essay titled "Parallels Between Egyptian Art and Southwestern Nigerian Art", published in "Kemet And The African Worldview", by Maulana Karenga and Jacob H. Carruthers.

ART COLLECTOR: Collected African Sculpture from (The Legendary) Sambo Sissoko, Kesma Dambelley and many other African traders during the mid-1980s.

Traveled to NIGERIA and GHANA during the summer of 1976 to record the traditional arts. Recorded African and African American art exhibits since 1967: Sargent Johnson Retrospective, at Oakland Museum of Art 1971; William H. Johnson 1901-1970, a retrospective exhibit, Smithsonian Institute Gallery, Washington DC. 1971; Elizabeth Catlet Mora Exhibit at Studio Museum In Harlem, N.Y.C. NY, 1971; Olatunji Collection, NY, 1971. 1968 photographed the Paul Tishman Collection "Sculpture of Black Africa", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. 1967 "African Arts an Exhibition at Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology", U.C. Berkeley Campus, CA.

TEACHER: Taught Computer Technology at Frick Middle School, in Oakland, from 1997-2000. Between 1970-1980 taught African and African American Art History, Art Education in The Black Community and Traditional African Wood Carving in several San Francisco Bay Area colleges and universities: California College Of Arts and Crafts, San Jose State University, and University Of California, Berkeley Campus.

1967 Produced art slides for African American Studies courses being taught at Merritt College, the Spring of 1968, by artist's father Claude Clark. 1971, Set up home photo slide lab to copy and process African and African American art sides.

ARTIST: Clark's sculpture work appears in the following publication: "Honoring the Ancestors The Woodcarvings of Claude Lockhart Clark", by June Anderson, published by California Academy of the Sciences, 1997. See additional link at: At Earth Metropolis web site.

"Family Memorial Stools: An African-American Legacy" artist in residence and consultant for the month of March, in 1992 at "Circle Of Life-Ceremonial Arts" demonstration and traveling exhibit, California Academy Of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California.

Commissioned to carve two staffs and and one door for Father Paul Ross Vassar at Saint Coumba Parish in Oakland, California, 1991-1992. 

Has exhibited every year locally and nationally in art museum galleries, one Worlds Fair in Seattle Washington, and college; university art galleries between 1960-1980.

Es vibes "Me Fre Wo", by Iron Boy. Meet him down at de High Life.

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