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A photograph of a book propped upright on top of a pair of laterally stacked copies of the same book. The cover of the book features a cream-colored woven textile with two thin red stripes that stretch from corner to corner. The text on the top-left corner reads, "Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know."A photograph of a book spread with a photo on the left and text on the right. The book image features two creating a white chalk rubbing of a woven texture against a black ground.

MW Editions and The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know

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Description

In the spring of 1865, a seemingly unremarkable dishcloth played a crucial role in ending the Civil War as the South’s flag of surrender at Appomattox. In Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know, textile and social practice artist Sonya Clark focuses specifically on this Confederate Flag of Truce, exploring the legacy of symbols and challenging the power of propaganda, erasures, and omissions. By making the Truce Flag—a cloth that brokered peace and represented the promise of reconciliation—into a monumental alternative to the infamous Confederate Battle Flag and its pervasive divisiveness, Clark instigates a role reversal and aims to correct a historical imbalance.

Published in 2020 by MW Editions and The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Hardcover, 112 pages / 60 color
6.5 x 9.25 inches

Includes text by Valerie Cassel Oliver and W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and a foreword by Susan L. Talbott, former Executive Director of FWM.

ISBN: 9780998701868.

About The Exhibition

A photograph of a cream-colored dish towel hanging at a diagonal from a wooden dowel against a black background. The dishtowel has a woven texture with three thin red stripes stitched toward the frayed end.

Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know

March 29–August 4, 2019

Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know is a timely catalyst for dialogue about the scars of the Confederacy and America’s ability to acknowledge and reckon with racial injustice.

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