Joyce J. Scott

Joyce J. Scott (bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1948) ka o nyɛ African-American nuuni tuunbaŋda, ŋun mɛri binyɛra, neen-pirintira, ni karimba. O daa di la MacArthur Fellow yuuni 2016, ka di Smithsonian Visionary Artist yuni 2019, Scott nyɛla ŋun mali yuli binyɛra mɛbu ni. 

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  Exhibitions 
Scott's exhibits include:

 2024     Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams, The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; traveling to Seattle Art Museum, WA. Curators: Cecilia Wichmann and Catharina Manchanda (catalogue)
 2024     Bearing Witness: A History of Prints by Joyce J. Scott, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD.  Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
 2023     Joyce J. Scott: Messages, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (traveling, catalogue).  Curators: Mobilia Gallery
 2019    REALITY, Times Two: Joyce J. Scott & Elizabeth Talford Scott, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD. Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
 2020 Visibilities: Intrepid Women of Artpace, Artpace, San Antonio, TX. Curator: Erin K. Murphy
 2018    Joyce J. Scott: It’s Happening in 2018, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Amy Eva Raehse

2018  Joyce J. Scott: Harriet Tubman and Other Truths, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, N.J. Curators: Lowery Stokes Sims and Patterson Sims
2016  Generations: Joyce J. Scott | Sonya Clark, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD. Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
 2016  Joyce J. Scott, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA. Curator: Bruce Hoffman
 2015  Joyce J. Scott: Truths & Visions, Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL(catalog). Curator: Patterson Sims
 2015  Joyce J. Scott: Truths and Visions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH(Catalogue). Curator: Patterson Sims
 2014  Can’t We All Just Get Along?, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore MD (Catalogue). Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
 2014  Maryland to Murano: Neckpieces and Sculptures by Joyce J. Scott, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (catalogue). Curator: Lowery Stokes Sims
 2012  On Kilter, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD (Catalogue). Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
 2012  Joyce J. Scott: A Solo Exhibition of Prints, Film and Performance, The Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
 2010-2011   Li’l Lies and Purty Thangs, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD (Catalogue).  Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
 2010  McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
 2010  The Wine Dark Sea, The Mitchell Gallery at St. John's College, Annapolis, MD (Catalogue)
 2010  Love Letters, Mobilia, Cambridge MA
 2008  Joyce J. Scott: PAINFUL DEATH/PAINLESS LIFE, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD (Catalogue) Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
 2008  Joyce J. Scott in Tampa, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, Tampa University, Tampa, FL
 2007  Kickin’ It with Joyce J. Scott, Houston Center for Contemporary Art, Houston, TX. Curator: George Ciscle/ Exhibits USA
 2007  Kickin’ It with Joyce J. Scott, Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, FL. Curator George Ciscle/ Exhibits USA
 2007  Joyce J. Scott: Breathe, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD (Catalogue) Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
 2005  Joyce J. Scott, Dirtwork, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
 2005  This Hand Washes That Hand Too, Mesa Contemporary Arts at the Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ.
 2004  Kickin' It with Joyce J. Scott, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Curator George Ciscle/ Exhibits USA
 2004  Joyce J. Scott, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
 2004  Joyce J. Scott, Walter Gropius Artist, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
 2004  Still Alive in 2004, Ward Center for the Arts, St. Paul Schools, Brooklandville, MD
 2003  Joyce J. Scott, Untethered, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
 2003  What a Long, Strange, Bumpy Trip it’s Been!, Sculpture & Monoprints by Joyce J. Scott, Center of Contemporary Arts (COCA), St. Louis, MO
 2001  Joyce J. Scott, In Search of Self-Unfathomable, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
 2001  Joyce J. Scott, WTC Series, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
 2000  Joyce J. Scott, Kickin' it With The Old Masters, Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD (catalogue). Curator: George Ciscle and the students at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
 2000  Life After Fifty, Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC
 2000  Treacherous Tickles:  Recent Sculpture & Prints, Main Gallery, University of Texas, El Paso, TX
 2000  Joyce J. Scott, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
 1999   Incognegroism, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
 1999  Joyce J. Scott, A Muse, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
 1999  Joyce J. Scott, The Radiance of What Is, Contemporary Art Center of  Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
 1999  Joyce J. Scott: New Lithographs and Monoprints, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
 1998  Things That Go Bump in the Night II, Gallery 181, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
 1996  Joyce Scott, Mixed Bag, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
 1995  Images Concealed, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
 1995  Joyce J. Scott, The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
 1994  Hard Choices, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO (catalogue)
 1994  Joyce J. Scott, Okun Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
 1992  Joyce J. Scott, Brooklyn College of Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (traveling, catalogue)
 1992  Dimensional Objects and Jewelry, Politics of the Body, Esther Saks Fine Art, Ltd, Chicago, Illinois[10]
 1991  I-con-no-body / I-con-o-graphy, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)
1991  Believe I've Been Sanctified, "Places with a Past: New Site-Specific Art in Charleston," Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina
 1988  Thru the Veil-, Textile Center for the Arts, Chicago, Illinois[10]
 1985  Dreamweaver, The Cultural Center, Chicago Public Library, Illinois[10]
 1981  Something Got a Hold on Me, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC[10]
 1981  Something Got a Hold on Me, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

 Select honors and awards 
Below are a few selected awards, honors and fellowships Scott has received so far in her career:
 Gold Medalist, American Craft Council (2020)
 Smithsonian Visionary Artist (2019) 
 MacArthur Fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL (2016)
 Masters of the Medium, James Renwick Alliance, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2006)
 Governor's Arts Award at Artsalute: Maryland Citizens for the Arts Foundation, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (2002)
 Fellow, American Craft Council, New York, NY (2001)
 National Living Treasure Award, Maryland Nominee (1996)
 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Award (1994)
 Pace Roberts Fellowship (1994)
 National Printing Fellowship (1992)
 Mid Atlantic Consortium Award (1990)
 Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship (1987, 1981)
 Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts (1980)

Museum collections
 Voices, 1993. Museum of Arts and Design
 Lovers, 2002. Museum of Arts and Design
 Water Mammy 1, 2012. Museum of Arts and Design
 Three Graces Oblivious While Los Angeles Burns, 1992. The Corning Museum of Glass
 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland 
Rodney King's Head Was Squashed Like a Watermelon, 1991. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
Flaming Skeleton #3, 1993. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan  
The Sneak, 1989. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Sixteen Days in His Life, 1997-99. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri  
Joyce J. Scott. Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina  
Necklace, 1994. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. , 
Africa, ca. 1980. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. 
Caffeine, 1994-99. Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas  
Beaded Necklace. Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin  
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY 
Charles A. Waustum Museum, Madison, WI
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington, DC
Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Foundation, Towson, MD
Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
None Are Free until All Are Free, 2006. Yale University, New Haven, CT

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Further reading

Stankard, Paul J. "Burning Embers." Glass Quarterly, no. 136 (Autumn 2014): 26-34.
Sims, Lowery S, Raehse, Amy E, and King-Hammond, Leslie. "Breathe". (2007)
Raehse, Amy E. "Can't We All Just Get Along". (2014) ISBN: 978-1-4951-2405-1

Sims, Lowery S, Joyce Scott, Patterson Sims, and Seph Rodney. Joyce J. Scott: Harriet Tubman and Other Truths. , 2018.
Scott, Joyce and Raehse, Amy E. "REALITY, Times Two: Joyce J. Scott and Elizabeth Talford Scott" (2019) ISBN: 978-1-7923-1491-9

External links

Joyce J. Scott: Harriet Tubman and Other Truths, Grounds for Sculpture video. October 27, 2017.
Oral history interview with Joyce J. Scott, 2009 July 22, from The Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, Archives of American Art. 
Craft in America, Joyce J. Scott PBS Documentary
Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, Joyce J. Scott, Artist of the Month July 2010 - 
Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, Joyce J. Scott, Short Resume 
Interview with Curtia James, from Sources: Multicultural Influences on Contemporary African American Sculptors, February 2 - April 11, 1994, The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland at College Park
Joyce J. Scott Kickin' It with the Old Masters exhibition, Prints, Drawings and Photographs Department Records finding aid , Archives and Manuscripts Collections, The Baltimore Museum of Art
Joyce J. Scott: Painful Death / Painless Life, November 15, 2008 - January 23, 2009, Goya Contemporary - Goya Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
Joyce J. Scott: Images Concealed, February 9 - March 19, 1995, San Francisco Art Institute
Breathe: Joyce J. Scott, February 23 - April 20, 2007, Goya Contemporary - Goya Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
On Kilter: Joyce J. Scott, September 12 - November 10, 2012, Goya Contemporary - Goya Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
Talking Shop: Craft + Defiance  November 17, 2015 at Baltimore School for the Arts, The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
A woman artist speaks / Joyce J. Scott ; interviewed by Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan, broadcast ca. July 27, 1977 on WPFW, Washington, D.C.

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