 Joyce ScottJoyce Scott is the "Queen of Beadwork". Her exuberant beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces are provocative and confrontational, addressing political and social issues.Quotes
It's important to me to use art in a manner that incites people to look and then carry something home - even it it's subliminal - that might make a change in them. Art can be a life force. That's why so many people in other cultures integrate it into everyday use. I know I've got an itch. I guess I just want to keep making work that confounds me. I want to be confused, ignited, knocked down by my own work. I believe in messing with stereotypes, prodding the viewer to reassess. We're all trapped in gender, race, and class if you believe you have no freedom of choice and are under the weight of other people's suggestions about what you are. To make a difference in the lives of children, we must be much more honest and up front to them about the society we've created. I don't believe in shielding children from issues they are seeing everyday. It is smarter, especially for an institution that has a charge to educate, to say, "What is this about?" ImagesSELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
American Craft Museum, New York, NY Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Charles A. Waustum Musuem, Madison, WI The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, NY The Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI Druid Hill Park Revitalization (Collaboration), Baltimore, MD Frederick Douglass- Issac Myers Maritime Park/ A Living Classroom, Baltimore, Maryland Harlem Park Square Revitalization, Baltimore, MD Howard Peter Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, MD Kruithuis Museum, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC The Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Nations Bank, Charlotte, NC Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI Roland Park Country School, Baltimore, MD Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington, DC Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC |
[This is]
the one life we know we have. I can't be complacent about the
world I live in.