Joyce Scott & Tim Tate; “NOW”, 6′ x 9′; cast glass, mixed media. Photo by Pete Duvall.
Now that Joyce Scott’s 50-year retrospective has been announced, we can share this image of the Dr Joyce Scott/Tim Tate collaborative mural that has been in creation for over 6 months! What a joy to get to work with this huge icon of contemporary art and MacArthur Fellow!
Artist Joyce Scott, Goya Contemporary Gallery Exec Director Amy Eva Raehse and Tim Tate work on the collaborative mural at Washington Glass Studio, 2023.
Titled “NOW” the work measures 9ft W x 6ft H and the mixed media, cast glass wall focuses on topics around racial inequality, women’s rights and LGTBQ+ issues.
Detail of panel in “NOW” by Dr Joyce Scott and Tim Tate.
Said Tim about the work – “This is a once in a lifetime project, and I couldn’t be prouder of any piece I have ever made.”
Detail of panel in “NOW” by Dr Joyce Scott and Tim Tate.
The artwork is available at Goya Contemporary in Baltimore and will be on display there in Sept or Oct. (Check with gallery).
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and Seattle Art Museum (SAM) have co-organized the 50-year career retrospective of artist Joyce J. Scott, one of the most significant artists of our time. Best known for her virtuosic use of beads and glass, Joyce has upended hierarchies of art and craft across a spectrum of media over the course of five decades—from her woven tapestries and soft sculpture of the 1970s and audacious performances and wearable art in the 1980s to sculptures of astonishing formal ingenuity and social force from the late 1970s to the present moment. The artist’s works across all media beguile viewers with beauty and humor while confronting racism, sexism, ecological devastation, and complex family dynamics.
Artist Joyce Scott working on collaborative work with WGS Co-Founder Tim Tate.
Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams was developed in close dialogue with the Baltimore-based artist and her collaborators to reveal the full breadth of Joyce’s singular vision through more than 120 objects from public and private collections across the United States. The exhibition will encompass significant examples of the artist’s sculpture—both stand-alone and wearable pieces—alongside performance footage, garments, prints, and materials from Joyce’s personal archive.
Man Eating Watermelon. 1986; Collection of Paul Daniel and Linda DePalma
Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams to feature more than 120 objects from across the full arc of Joyce’s prolific and genre-defying career.
Buddha Gives Basketball to the Ghetto. 1991; Collection of Carol Cole LevinHead Shot. 2008. Chrysler Museum of Art, Museum purchase
Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams will be presented in Baltimore as a special ticketed exhibition from March 24, through July 14, 2024, and in Seattle from October 17, 2024, through January 20, 2025. It is co-curated by Cecilia Wichmann, BMA Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, and Catharina Manchanda, SAM Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, with support from Leslie Rose, Joyce J. Scott Curatorial Research Assistant.
Joyce J. Scott (b. 1948, Baltimore, MD) and her work have been the subject of numerous exhibitions, books, and articles. She has received commissions, grants, awards, residencies, and honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman, American Craft Council, National Living Treasure Award, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Mary Sawyers Imboden Baker Award, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2016), Smithsonian Visionary Artist Award, National Academy of Design Induction, and Moore College Visionary Woman Award, among others. Joyce earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Instituto Allende in Mexico. In 2018, she was awarded an honorary fellowship from NYU, as well as honorary doctorates from both MICA and the California College of the Arts. In 2022, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.
Sharing a laugh in the Glass Studio. L-R Tim Tate, Joyce Scott, Cecelia Wichmann
The legendary artist – Joyce Scott– who was awarded the 2016 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” is making artwork in the Glass School. Joyce is a printmaker, weaver, sculptor, performance artist, and educator, but she is probably most well known for her work in jewelry, beadwork, and glass. Her art reflects her take on all aspects of American popular culture, her ancestry, and her community.
Artists Tim Tate & Joyce Scott working in the front studio kilns.
Joyce is working with Tim Tate – creating new work for Joyce’s retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She was joined with Cecilia Wichmann – Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
WGS Co-Director Michael Janis describes to Joyce Scott the “one that got away” … in the glass school.L-R Christina Helowicz, Tim Tate, Joyce Scott, Cecelia Wichmann
Joyce Scott; Head Shot, 2008, Seed beads, thread, glass, bullets, 18 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 4 1/2 in
Dr Joyce Scott
Join the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass on Tuesday, March 15, at 2 p.m. Eastern time, when MacArthur Fellow Dr. Joyce J. Scott examines the extremes of human nature by conflating humor and horror, history and fantasy, as well as beauty and brutality to create artworks that not only mine the fabric of our complex collective history, but that reveal universal truths.
Best known for her use of the off-loom, free-form, glass bead weaving technique referred to as the peyote stitch, Scott merges beads, blown glass, and found objects with autobiographical, sociological, and political content to unapologetically confront themes of racism, sexism, violence, inequality, history, and oppression while simultaneously embracing splendor, spirituality, nature, and healing. For this episode of Fired Up!, expect the unexpected! Sometimes, her boundless energy and creativity will spill forth in delightful and playful ways, mocking cultural stereotypes.
Free – Open to the public. Click below link to register for AACG talk:
