Joyce J. Scott: Spotlight Exhibition

October 4, 2016 – January 31, 2017

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Joyce J Scott

Heart Head

2023
Neckpiece. Peyote stitch, glass beads thread, wire. beaded bead and loop clasp.
15.5” l x 10” w x .5” d

Photo: Jeff Butler
Collection of Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
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Joyce J Scott

Heart Head

2023
Neckpiece. Peyote stitch, glass beads thread, wire. beaded bead and loop clasp.
15.5” l x 10” w x .5” d

Photo: Jeff Butler
Collection of Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
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Joyce J Scott

Hues

2023
Neckpiece. Peyote stitch, glass beads, thread, wire. Beaded hook and loop clasp.
10 3/4” w x 11” l x 3” d

Photo: Jeff Butler
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Joyce J Scott

Hues

2023
Neckpiece. Peyote stitch, glass beads, thread, wire. Beaded hook and loop clasp.
10 3/4” w x 11” l x 3” d

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Joyce J Scott

War, What is it Good For, Absolutely Nothing, Say it Again

2022
Neckpiece. Peyote stitch, glass beads, Thread.

17” l x 15” w x 1/2” d

Photo: Jeff Butler
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Joyce J Scott

War, What is it Good For, Absolutely Nothin, Say it Again (back)

2022
Neckpiece. Peyote stitch, glass beads, Thread.

17” l x 15” w x 1/2” d

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Joyce J Scott

War, What is it Good For, Absolutely Nothing, Say it Again

2022
Neckpiece. Peyote stitch, glass beads, Thread.

17” l x 15” w x 1/2” d

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Joyce J Scott

He Said What?

2022
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, velcro, leather, peyote stitch

24” x 15” x 1/8”

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Joyce J Scott

Liturgical

2022
Neckpiece Glass beads, wooden beads, plastic beads, plastic ink pens, wire, peyote stitch
Photo: Michael Koryta

Total length: 16 3/4”
Pendant: 11 1/2” x 3/4” x 3/4”
Neck ring: 5 1/2” dia

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Joyce J Scott

Fertility

2022
Neckpiece Glass beads, wooden beads, plastic beads, plastic ink pens, thread, wire, peyote stitch.
Photo: Michael Koryta

Total length: 15 1/4”
Pendant: 8.5” 1” x 3/4”

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Joyce J. Scott

Rechristening

2022
Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch

37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Joyce J Scott

Rechristening (Side View)

2022
Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch

37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Joyce J. Scott

Rechristening (close up)

2022
Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch

37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Rechristening (Back Detail)

2022
Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch

37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Rechristening (Detail)

2022
Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch

37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Rechristening (Pedestal Detail)

2022
Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch

37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Joyce J Scott

Mz. Teapot

2022
Teapot Glass beads, plastic beads, thread, wire, armature, woven and peyote stitch.

31” x 20” x 13”

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Joyce J Scott

Mz. Teapot (Back)

2022
Teapot Glass beads, plastic beads, thread, wire, armature, woven and peyote stitch.

31” x 20” x 13”

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Joyce J. Scott

Mz. Teapot (Side)

2022
Teapot Glass beads, plastic beads, thread, wire, armature, woven and peyote stitch.

31” x 20” x 13”

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Mz. Teapot (detail)

2022
Teapot Glass beads, plastic beads, thread, wire, armature, woven and peyote stitch.

31” x 20” x 13”

Photo: Michael Koryta
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Joyce J Scott

Blutz

2021
Beaded Tapestry Glass beads, thread, armature, peyote stitch

32” x 20” x 1/8”

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Joyce J Scott

Waterways

2021
Beaded Tapestry Peyote Stitch, glass beads, Thread.

29.5” w x 25.5” hx 1/8” d

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Joyce J Scott

Smokey Clouds

2021
Neckpiece Glass beads, beaded beads, silver beads, malachite beads, turquoise beads, onyx beads, pearls, mixed natural stones, thread, wire, peyote stitch

12.5” x 10” x 2.5”

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Joyce J Scott

Red River

2021
Neckpiece glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

13.5” x 9” x 1/8”

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Joyce J Scott

Caught Peeping

2021
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, wire, peyote stitch

12” x9” x 3”

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Joyce J Scott

Bracelet

Peyote-stitched glass beads, semiprecious stones, thread, wire

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Joyce J. Scott

Story Stole

2021
Neckpiece. Peyote Stitch, glass beads, beaded beads, blown glass rods, Thread, Wire.
19” l (from back of the neck to the bottom element) x 5” w x 6” dBack length: 7 1/2” long

Photo: Jeff Butler
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Joyce J. Scott

Story Stole

2021
Neckpiece. Peyote Stitch, glass beads, beaded beads, blown glass rods, Thread, Wire.
19” l (from back of the neck to the bottom element) x 5” w x 6” dBack length: 7 1/2” long

Photo: Jeff Butler
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Joyce J Scott

Red Intersections

2021
Neckpiece Glass beads, beaded beads, hand blown glass rods, thread, wire, peyote stitch

14” x 9” x 2”

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Joyce J. Scott

Fairytale

2020
Neckpiece. Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

27” x 16” x 1/8”

Collection of University Museums, Iowa State University Ames, Iowa
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Joyce J Scott

Yeller Girls

2020
Neckpiece glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

16” x 10 1/4” x 1/8”

Collection of Cincinnati Art Museum,
Cincinnati, OH
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Joyce J Scott

Bronze People with Loud Girl

2020
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

24" x 14” x 1/8”

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Joyce J Scott

Orange

2020
Neckpiece glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

15” x 10” x 1/8”

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Joyce J Scott

Teal

2020
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

13” x 8” x 1/8”

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Joyce J Scott

Zig Zag

2020
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

12” x 12” x 1/4”

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Joyce J Scott

Faded Image

2020
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

18.5” x 14” x 1/8”

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Joyce J Scott

Le Monde, Tarot Card

2020
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

22” x 10” x 1/8”

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Joyce J Scott

Moss

2019
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

16” x 15” x 1”

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Joyce J Scott

Moss(detail)

16” x 15” x 1”

16” x 15” x 1”

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Joyce J Scott

Raspberry Patch

2019
Neckpiece. Peyote stitch, glass beads, thread.

14” x 13” x 1/8”

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Joyce J Scott

Sojourn

2018
Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

16” x 10 1/4”x 1/8”

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Joyce J. Scott

Blue

2018
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

15” x 12” x 1.5”

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Joyce J. Scott

Thunderstorm

2019
Woven glass beads, Thread

10.5” x 9”

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Joyce J. Scott

Ms. Anne Redux

Woven glass beads thread, glass, photo, fake hair

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Joyce J. Scott

Ms. Anne Redux (detail)

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Joyce J. Scott

Ms. Anne Redux (detail)

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Joyce J. Scott

Bracelet

Peyote-stitched glass beads, coral, malachite, thread, wire

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Joyce J Scott

Plaid

Peyote-stitched glass beads, thread.

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Joyce J. Scott

Green Lace

2015
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

16.5” x 12” x 1/8”

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, NY
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Joyce J. Scott

Ancestry/Progeny

2014
Neckpiece Tintypes, glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

14.5” x 18 1/2” x 1 1/8”

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Joyce J. Scott

Neckpiece

Woven glass beads, assorted larger glass beads, photograph.
Deaccessioned from a private collection

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Joyce J Scott

Pearl

2013
Neckpiece Glass beads, pearls, thread, peyote stitch

14” x 9” x 1/4”

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Joyce J. Scott

Blue Face

2006. Peyote-stitched glass beads, thread, wire

13" x 8.5"

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Joyce J. Scott

Face Pendant

2016
Pendant Neckpiece.Peyote stitch, woven glass beads,Thread.
Pendant: 4” x 3”Beaded Chain: 16” long

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Joyce J. Scott

Bib Necklace

2012
Neckpiece Peyote stitch, glass beads, thread.

26” x 11” x 1/8”

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Joyce J. Scott

Are These Monkeys?

2010
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, wire, peyote stitch

12” x 14” x 3.5”

Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton, MA
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Joyce J. Scott

Virgin of Guadalupe

2009. Peyote-stitched glass beads, thread

14" x 9"

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Joyce J. Scott

Family

2009
Woven and peyote stitched glass beads, thread.

13" x 9"

Rhode Island School of Design Museum
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Joyce J. Scott

Yellow Submarine

2006
Vessel. Glass beads, mixed media, wire, thread, armature, woven glass beads

14” x 12” x 12”.

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Joyce J. Scott

Yellow Submarine

Reverse side.

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Joyce J. Scott

Spiked Tea

2005
Teapot Glass beads, found ceramic teapot, peyote stitch.

13.63 x 9.25 x 5.75”

Kamm Teapot Foundation
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Joyce J. Scott

Moss

Teapot Glass beads, found ceramic teapot, peyote stitch.

11.13 x 8 x 6.25"

Kamm Teapot Foundation
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Joyce J. Scott

Bird Trapped in Shadows

1981
Neckpiece. Peyote stitch, glass beads, thread. Mixed media.

12” x 12” x 1/2”

The Rotasa Collection
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Joyce J. Scott

Chinese Panthers

1979
Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, sued, loom and peyote stitch

20” x 8 3/4” x 1/8”

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, NY
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Please join us

Saturday, October 8th, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Mobilia Gallery
358 Huron Avenue
Cambridge, MA

to celebrate the work of Joyce J. Scott

mobiliaart@verizon.net or 617-876-2109

Picasso and Pie will be served. We invite you to read the full story that inspired Picasso and Pie here.

Joyce J. Scott received MacArthur “Genius” Award, 2016!

“Fearless, a force to be reckoned with, and as beautiful inside as out, Joyce J. Scott touches the soul and conscience of the viewer with her powerful imagery. A legend in Baltimore, Joyce is an historian, printmaker, weaver, sculptor, performance artist, vocalist and educator. She is perhaps best known for her work in jewelry, beadwork, and glass. Combining a heterogeneous mix of media (glass beads, African sculptures and masks, found objects), she creates powerful sculptural commentaries, rich in color, texture, popular culture, pathos and her own ancestry.”
– Lynn Ward, City Paper’s Best of Baltimore votes Joyce J. Scott: Best Artist

“The rich social import of Scott’s work is matched by its visual richness. Scott describes her beadwork as a cross between sculpture and painting. The artist treats the beads like the dabs of paint in a Pointillist canvas, but unlike paint (a medium Scott has tried), glass beads have the advantage of being translucent and can both capture and reflect light. Scott’s virtuoso weaving technique – a method similar to crochet called the peyote stitch, which she learned from a Cree Indian – allows great fluidity of form, resulting in protruding hollow forms and undulating effects. Scott is always seeking greater technical challenges; her work has grown increasingly more daring and dazzling in its visual richness and range of subject matter.”
– Susan Grant Lewin, “One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today

Renowned as the “Queen of Beadwork,” Joyce J. Scott’s exuberant beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces are provocative and confrontational, addressing contentious political and social issues such as gender, race, and class struggle. Born and raised in Baltimore, Joyce is a descendant of African-Americans, Native Americans, and Scots. Three generations of storytellers, quilters, basket makers, and wood, metal, and clay workers inspire her artwork.

Her earliest art lessons were received at home as she watched her mother, the renowned fiber artist, Elizabeth Talford Scott, create quilts using unconventional embroidery and appliqué techniques. Deeply rooted in her ethnic and family heritage, Scott’s work comments on issues affecting contemporary society in an effort to elicit awareness and response. The eloquent artist states, “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.”

Quotes

[This is] the one life we know we have. I can’t be complacent about the world I live in.

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?”

Press

New York Times – September 22, 2016, “MacArthur Foundation Announces 2016 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners,” Jennifer Scheussler (pdf 1.66mb)

Selected 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

Joyce J. Scott: Spotlight Exhibition

Joyce J Scott

Heart Head

Joyce J Scott

Heart Head

Joyce J Scott

Hues

Joyce J Scott

Hues

Joyce J Scott

War, What is it Good For, Absolutely Nothing, Say it Again

Joyce J Scott

War, What is it Good For, Absolutely Nothin, Say it Again (back)

Joyce J Scott

War, What is it Good For, Absolutely Nothing, Say it Again

Joyce J Scott

He Said What?

Joyce J Scott

Liturgical

Joyce J Scott

Fertility

Joyce J. Scott

Rechristening

Joyce J Scott

Rechristening (Side View)

Joyce J. Scott

Rechristening (close up)

Joyce J Scott

Rechristening (Back Detail)

Joyce J. Scott

Rechristening (Detail)

Joyce J Scott

Rechristening (Pedestal Detail)

Joyce J Scott

Mz. Teapot

Joyce J Scott

Mz. Teapot (Back)

Joyce J. Scott

Mz. Teapot (Side)

Joyce J Scott

Mz. Teapot (detail)

Joyce J Scott

Blutz

Joyce J Scott

Waterways

Joyce J Scott

Smokey Clouds

Joyce J Scott

Red River

Joyce J Scott

Caught Peeping

Joyce J Scott

Bracelet

Joyce J. Scott

Story Stole

Joyce J. Scott

Story Stole

Joyce J Scott

Red Intersections

Joyce J. Scott

Fairytale

Joyce J Scott

Yeller Girls

Joyce J Scott

Bronze People with Loud Girl

Joyce J Scott

Orange

Joyce J Scott

Teal

Joyce J Scott

Zig Zag

Joyce J Scott

Faded Image

Joyce J Scott

Le Monde, Tarot Card

Joyce J Scott

Moss

Joyce J Scott

Moss(detail)

Joyce J Scott