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Adele Goodman Clark was born on September 27, 1882, in Montgomery, Alabama. Her father, Robert, was a railroad worker and her mother, Estelle Goodman, was a music teacher.
The Clark family lived in Louisiana and Mississippi. In 1894, they moved to Richmond, Virginia. Adele Clark attended the Virginia Randolph Ellett School. When she was 19, Adele worked as a stenographer to pay for art classes at the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, she went to the New York School of Art on a scholarship, studying under artists including Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, and Kenneth Hayes Miller.
Her career in activism began in 1909. Adele and eighteen other women founded the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. She served as its secretary for one year and was committee chair and head of the group's lobby in the Virginia General Assembly. In 1910, Adele was the delegate to the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention in Washington, D.C.
In downtown Richmond, Clark and Nora Houston would set up their easels Fifth and share their "street corner sketches." They would speak about women's suffrage and hand out leaflets to people who came near.
In 1917, the Art Club of Richmond closed. Clark and Houston opened a studio together. They called their space the "Atelier." Houston and Clark offered classes. They hop.ed to foster the talents of a new generation of artists. Two years later, they founded the Virginia Academy of Fine Arts and Handicrafts.
When there were threats against the black women voters in 1920, Clark and Houston met with black leaders at their studio to plan ways to prevent the issue.They decided that white suffragists in cars would patrol polling locations. The two artists continued to be involved in the interracial movement after the elections were over. Clark and Houston participated in art-related activism. They campaigned for the resurrection of the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. The Academy opened in 1930 as the Richmond Academy of Arts. It became the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
After the Nineteenth Amendment's passing, the Equal Suffrage League became the Virginia League of Women Voters. Clark served as its first chair and then became president. She served as its president from 1921 to 1925, and then again from 1929 to 1944. Clark was elected to the board of the National League of Women Voters in 1924 as a regional director, and in 1925 she was elected Second Vice-President, a position she held until 1928.
Clark and Houston bought a home together in Richmond. It was known "The Brattery."
Clark held several government positions. She was the secretary of Governor E.Lee Trinkle's
Commission on the Simplification of State and Local Government and Governor Harry F. Byrd's Liberal Arts College for Women Commission. Adele was the dean of women at the College of William and Mary. She served as a field supervisor for the National Reemployment Service. In 1936, Adele served as the director of the Virginia Arts Project in the Works Progress Administration.
Clark said, "I've always tried to combine my interest in art with my interest in government."
Adele and Nora Houston met at the Art School of Richmond. They were life partners until Nora died in 1942.
On June 4, 1983, Adele Clark died in Richmond, Virginia.

See wikipedia article

Adele Goodman Clark was born on September 27, 1882, in Montgomery, Alabama. Her father, Robert, was a railroad worker and her mother, Estelle Goodman, was a music teacher.
The Clark family lived in Louisiana and Mississippi. In 1894, they moved to Richmond, Virginia. Adele Clark attended the Virginia Randolph Ellett School. When she was 19, Adele worked as a stenographer to pay for art classes at the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, she went to the New York School of Art on a scholarship, studying under artists including Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, and Kenneth Hayes Miller.
Her career in activism began in 1909. Adele and eighteen other women founded the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. She served as its secretary for one year and was committee chair and head of the group's lobby in the Virginia General Assembly. In 1910, Adele was the delegate to the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention in Washington, D.C.
In downtown Richmond, Clark and Nora Houston would set up their easels Fifth and share their "street corner sketches." They would speak about women's suffrage and hand out leaflets to people who came near.
In 1917, the Art Club of Richmond closed. Clark and Houston opened a studio together. They called their space the "Atelier." Houston and Clark offered classes. They hop.ed to foster the talents of a new generation of artists. Two years later, they founded the Virginia Academy of Fine Arts and Handicrafts.
When there were threats against the black women voters in 1920, Clark and Houston met with black leaders at their studio to plan ways to prevent the issue.They decided that white suffragists in cars would patrol polling locations. The two artists continued to be involved in the interracial movement after the elections were over. Clark and Houston participated in art-related activism. They campaigned for the resurrection of the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. The Academy opened in 1930 as the Richmond Academy of Arts. It became the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
After the Nineteenth Amendment's passing, the Equal Suffrage League became the Virginia League of Women Voters. Clark served as its first chair and then became president. She served as its president from 1921 to 1925, and then again from 1929 to 1944. Clark was elected to the board of the National League of Women Voters in 1924 as a regional director, and in 1925 she was elected Second Vice-President, a position she held until 1928.
Clark and Houston bought a home together in Richmond. It was known "The Brattery."
Clark held several government positions. She was the secretary of Governor E.Lee Trinkle's
Commission on the Simplification of State and Local Government and Governor Harry F. Byrd's Liberal Arts College for Women Commission. Adele was the dean of women at the College of William and Mary. She served as a field supervisor for the National Reemployment Service. In 1936, Adele served as the director of the Virginia Arts Project in the Works Progress Administration.
Clark said, "I've always tried to combine my interest in art with my interest in government."
Adele and Nora Houston met at the Art School of Richmond. They were life partners until Nora died in 1942.
On June 4, 1983, Adele Clark died in Richmond, Virginia.