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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.
  Photo: Jeff Butler

  17” l x 15” w x 1/2” 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.
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  17” l x 15” w x 1/2” d

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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.
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  17” l x 15” w x 1/2” d

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• Joyce J Scott

  He Said What?

  2022
  Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, velcro, leather, peyote stitch
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  24” x 15” x 1/8”

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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

  Rechristening

  2022
  Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

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• Joyce J Scott

  Rechristening (Side View)

  2022
  Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

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• Joyce J. Scott

  Rechristening (close up)

  2022
  Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

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• Joyce J Scott

  Rechristening (Back Detail)

  2022
  Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

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• Joyce J. Scott

  Rechristening (Detail)

  2022
  Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

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• Joyce J Scott

  Rechristening (Pedestal Detail)

  2022
  Sculpture Glass beads, plastic beads, mixed media. Armature, thread embroidery, peyote stitch
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  37 3/4” x 20” x 14.5”

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• Joyce J Scott

  Mz. Teapot

  2022
  Teapot Glass beads, plastic beads, thread, wire, armature, woven and peyote stitch.
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  31” x 20” x 13”

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• Joyce J Scott

  Mz. Teapot (Back)

  2022
  Teapot Glass beads, plastic beads, thread, wire, armature, woven and peyote stitch.
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  31” x 20” x 13”

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• Joyce J. Scott

  Mz. Teapot (Side)

  2022
  Teapot Glass beads, plastic beads, thread, wire, armature, woven and peyote stitch.
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  31” x 20” x 13”

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• Joyce J Scott

  Mz. Teapot (detail)

  2022
  Teapot Glass beads, plastic beads, thread, wire, armature, woven and peyote stitch.
  Photo: Michael Koryta

  31” x 20” x 13”

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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

  Blutz

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

  32” x 20” x 1/8”

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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

  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

  Red River

  2021
  Neckpiece glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

  13.5” x 9” 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

  Orange

  2020
  Neckpiece glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

  15” x 10” x 1/8”

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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

  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

  Teal

  2020
  Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

  13” x 8” 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

  Zig Zag

  2020
  Neckpiece Glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

  12” x 12” x 1/4”

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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

  Yeller Girls

  2020
  Neckpiece glass beads, thread, peyote stitch

  16” x 10 1/4” x 1/8”

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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

  Raspberry Patch

  2019
  Neckpiece. Peyote stitch, glass beads, thread.

  14” x 13” x 1/8”

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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, semiprecious stones, thread, wire

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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

  Blue Face

  2006. Peyote-stitched glass beads, thread, wire

  13" x 8.5"

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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 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