Lucreaty Clark
*Lucreaty Clark was born on this date in 1903. She was a Black folk artist known for basket weaving.
Lucreaty J. Clark was born in rural Jefferson County, Florida. She was one of the youngest of sixteen children in a sharecropping family that worked on plantations, picking cotton and performing other farm-related tasks. She learned how to weave baskets from white oak from her parents, who, in turn, learned the craft from their parents. Clark's grandparents were slaves on the Rindell plantation near Monticello, Florida.
In 1985, Clark received the Florida Folk Heritage Award. Clark taught her grandson, Alphonso Jennings, the craft of weaving white oak baskets when he was a teenager. He further honed this skill in the 1983 Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program and continued sharing basket-making knowledge after Clark died in 1986.
