Represented by Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
Born 1948 in Baltimore, MD. Lives and works in Baltimore, MD.
EDUCATION
1970 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1971 MFA, Instituto Allende, San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
1976 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2018 Honorary Fellowship, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Honorary Doctorate, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Honorary Doctorate, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2022 Honorary Doctorate for Humane Letters, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
AWARDS
2023 Life-Long Impact Award, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
2020 Gold Medal for Consummate Craftmanship, American Craft Council
2019 Smithsonian Visionary Award, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2018 Inducted into the National Academy of Design
Outstanding Achievement Award, Baltimore School of Design, Baltimore, MD
2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, 46th Annual Glass Art Society
2016 MacArthur Fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Mary Sawyers Imboden Baker Award, Baltimore, MD
Best Artist Award, City Paper, Baltimore, MD
2014 The LOOT Award for Contemporary Art Jewelry, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2012 Regional Star Award, James Renwick Alliance, Washington, DC
2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, Women’s Caucus for the Arts
2007 Master of the Medium/Metal, The James Renwick Alliance, Washington, DC
2002 The Governor’s Arts Award at Artsalute, Maryland Citizens for the Arts, Baltimore, MD
Foundation Artist Honoree, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Baltimoreans of the Year, Baltimore Magazine, MD
Best of Baltimore Award (Hopkins Performance), Baltimore Magazine, MD
2001 American Crafts Council Fellow, New York, NY
1997 Anonymous Was a Woman, New York, NY
1996 National Living Treasure Award, Maryland Nominee
1995 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
1994 Pace Roberts Fellowship Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Art Matters Incorporated
1992 National Printing Fellowship
1990 Mid-Atlantic Arts Consortium
1987 Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship
1981 Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship
1980 Artist’s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Asheville Museum of Art, NC
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Corning Museum of Glass, NY
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Denver Art Museum, CO
Des Moines Art Center, IA
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
Druid Hill Park Revitalization (Collaboration), Baltimore, MD
Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park/A Living Classroom, Baltimore, MD
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Harlem Park Square Revitalization, Baltimore, MD
Howard Peter Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, MD
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Kruithuis Museum, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Metal Museum, Memphis, TN
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum of Art, AL
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Nations Bank, Charlotte, NC
Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority, Philadelphia, PA
Petrucci Family Foundation, Asbury, NJ
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington, DC
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Roland Park Country School, Baltimore, MD
Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Shah Garg Collection
Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Foundation, Towson, MD
Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Charles A. Waustum Museum, Madison, WI
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
24-25 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
23-24 Joyce J. Scott: Messages, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (traveling, catalogue)
2019 Hitching Their Dreams to Untamed Stars: Joyce J. Scott and Elizabeth Talford Scott,
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Cecilia Wichmann
REALITY, Times Two: Joyce J. Scott & Elizabeth Talford Scott, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
Joyce J. Scott: Smithsonian Visionary Artist Award Recipient, National Building Museum, Washington, DC
2018 Joyce J. Scott: What Next and Why Not, Peter Blum, New York, NY
Araminta, Open Spaces Kansas City, Union Station, Kansas City, MO, Curator: Dan Cameron
Joyce J. Scott: It’s Happening in 2018, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
17-18 Joyce J. Scott: Harriet Tubman and Other Truths, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, Township, NJ (catalogue)
Curators: Lowery Stokes Sims and Patterson Sims
2016 Baker Artist Award: Joyce J. Scott, Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Joyce J. Scott, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, Curator: Bruce Hoffman
Joyce J. Scott, Brooklyn College of Art Gallery, NY (traveling, catalogue)
Joyce J. Scott, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD
2015 Joyce J. Scott: Truths and Visions, Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Curator: Patterson Sims
Joyce J. Scott: Truths and Visions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH. Curator: Patterson Sims
2014 Can’t We All Just Get Along? Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD (catalogue)
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
Maryland to Murano: Neckpieces and Sculptures by Joyce J. Scott, Museum of Arts and Design,
New York, NY, Curator: Lowery Stokes Sims (catalogue)
2012 On Kilter, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Amy Eva Raehse (catalogue)
Joyce J. Scott: A Solo Exhibition of Prints, Film and Performance, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
11-12 Joyce J. Scott: Tight Fit, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA. Curator: John Barnes
10-11 Li’l Lies & Purty Thangs, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Amy Eva Raehse (catalogue)
2010 Joyce J. Scott, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC
The Wine Dark Sea, The Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD
Love Letters, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2009 O the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
O the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, Tijuana Cultural Center, Mexico
2008 Joyce J. Scott: Painful Death/Painless Life, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD (catalogue)
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
Joyce J. Scott in Tampa, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, FL
2007 Kickin’ It With Joyce J. Scott, Houston Center for Contemporary Art, TX
Curator: George Ciscle/Exhibits USA
Kickin’ It With Joyce J. Scott, Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, FL. Curator: George Ciscle/Exhibits USA
Joyce J. Scott: Breathe, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD (catalogue)
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
2005 Joyce J. Scott: Selected Sculpture, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Joyce J. Scott: Dirtwork, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD. Curator: Costas Grimaldis
This Hand Washes That Hand Too, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum at the Mesa Arts Center, AZ
2004 Kickin’ It With Joyce J. Scott, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Curator: George Ciscle/Exhibits USA
Joyce J. Scott, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Joyce J. Scott, Selected Sculpture, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Joyce J. Scott, Walter Gropius Artist, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Still Alive in 2004, Ward Center for the Arts, St. Paul Schools, Brooklandville, MD
2003 Joyce J. Scott: Untethered, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
What a Long, Strange, Bumpy Trip it’s Been!: Sculpture & Mono prints by Joyce J. Scott,
Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis, MO
2001 Joyce J. Scott: In Search of Self-Unfathomable, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Joyce J. Scott: Journeys, Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
Joyce J. Scott, WTC Series and Sculpture, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2000 Joyce J. Scott: Kickin’ It With the Old Masters, Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD (catalogue)
Curator: George Ciscle
Life After Fifty, Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Treacherous Tickles: Recent Sculpture & Prints, Main Gallery, University of Texas, El Paso, TX
Joyce J. Scott, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1999 Incognegroism, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
Joyce J. Scott: A Muse, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Joyce J. Scott: The Radiance of What Is, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia,
Virginia Beach, VA
Joyce J. Scott: New Lithographs and Monoprints, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1998 Things That Go Bump in the Night, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Things That Go Bump in the Night II, Gallery 181, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Joyce J. Scott, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Joyce J. Scott, Habitat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL
1997 Extended Foreplay, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Joyce J. Scott, Joan Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Joyce Scott: Selected Sculpture and Prints, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL
1996 Joyce Scott, Mixed Bag, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Joyce J. Scott, High Gloss, Houston, TX
Joyce J. Scott, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1995 Images Concealed, San Francisco Art Institute, CA (catalogue)
Joyce J. Scott, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Joyce J. Scott, The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1994 Hard Choices, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO (catalogue)
Joyce J. Scott, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Joyce J. Scott, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oaks, MI
Joyce J. Scott, Okun Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993 Joyce J. Scott, City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC
Joyce J. Scott, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA
1992 Joyce J. Scott, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, Jenkins Fine Arts Center, Greenville, NC
Joyce J. Scott, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Dimensional Objects & Jewelry, Politics of the Body, Esther Saks Fine Art, Ltd., Chicago, IL
1991 I-con-no-body/I-con-o-graphy, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)
New Work, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1990 Joyce J. Scott, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Joyce J. Scott, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Joyce J. Scott, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK
1988 Through the Veil, Textile Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL 1985
Dreamweaver, The Cultural Center, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
1981 Something Got a Hold on Me, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
SELECTED TWO-PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
24-25 The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
2024 The DMV Collects the DMV, The Washington Print Club 60th Anniversary Exhibition, The Kreeger
Museum, Washington, DC
Eternal Paper, The Paper Academy, Gilleleje, Denmark, Curator: Helen Frederick
Beyond Brilliance: Jewelry Highlights from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
A Collector’s Journey: Susan Grant Lewin and the Art Jewelry World, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL
NOW: Collaborations between Joyce J. Scott and Tim Tate, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
23-25 Making Their Mark, Shah Garg Foundation, New York, NY, Curator: Cecilia Alemani; Traveling to the
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, co-curated by Margot Norton;
Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, co-curated by Sabine Eckmann. (catalogue)
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, co-organized by The Baltimore Museum
of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD and Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
23–24 Beauty and the Unexpected, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Eternal Paper, University of Maryland Global Campus, College Park, MD, Curator: Helen Frederick
2023 2022 Accessions to the Permanent Collection, Metal Museum, Memphis, TN
Mirror Ball, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
2022 Visionary Women: Janet Biggs & Joyce J. Scott, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Gabrielle Lavin Suzenski
The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD
Curator: Myrtis Bedolla
Exploring Presence: African American Artists in the Upper South, James E. Lewis Museum of Art,
Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
FIRED UP!, Coppin State University in collaboration with The American Ceramic Society’s Glass & Optical
Materials Division and the United Nations International Year of Glass, Coppin State University,
Baltimore, MD. Curators: Howard L. Cohen, Amy Eva Raehse, Linda Day Clark
Wombmanity, BWI Marshall International Art Gallery in partnership with The Black Art Today Foundation,
Baltimore, MD, Curators: Alicia B. Clark and Lisa A. Lumford Clark
RINGS! 1968-2021, Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, Curator: Helen Drutt
Elegy: Lament in the 20th Century, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
21-23 The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; Crystal
Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO;
Curator: Valerie Cassel Oliver (catalog)
What Are You Looking At? An Eccentric Chorus of Artists Working in Glass, Museum of
Glass, Tacoma, WA. Curators: Benjamin Cobb, Benjamin Wright
How Do We Know the World?, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Curators: Jessica Bell Brown and Leila Grothe
21-22 Reclaiming & Making: Art, Desire, Violence, Museum of Sex, New York, NY, Curator: Emily Shoyer
2021 A Face Like Mine, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT. Curator: Cynrhia Rozney, Ph.D.
Glasstress Boca Raton 2021, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
20-21 Textile Gallery, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Unbreakable: Women in Glass, Fondazione Berengo, Venice, Italy. Curators: Nadja Romain
and Koen Vanmechelen
2020 Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum at
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
All Decked Out, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD
To the Hoop / Basketball and Contemporary Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of
North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Visibilities: Intrepid Women of Artpace, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
Women X Women, Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection, Ronald K.
de Long Gallery, Penn State University, Center Valley, PA
Beaded, Institut Français, Munich, Germany
19-22 Waking Dream, Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
19-20 Afrocosmologies: American Reflections at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Cultural Ties: Sonya Clark, Joyce J. Scott and Helen Zughaib, Baum Gallery, University of
Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
Adore / Adorn: The Elsie Michie Contemporary Jewelry Collection, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Reflecting Perspectives: Artists Confront Issues of Diversity and Inclusion, Bergstrom-Mahler
Museum of Glass, Neenah, WI
An Essential Presence, The Pertucci Family Foundation of African-American Art, Allentown
Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Glasstress 2019, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Campiello Della Pescheria, Murano, Italy
Jewelry: The Body Transformed, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
18-21 Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden; traveling to The Afrika Museum,
Bergen Dal, Netherlands
18-19 Mending: Craft and Community, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Honoring Karen Johnson Boyd: Art Jewelry/Sculpture to Wear, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2018 After the Fall, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Crossing Boundaries: Material as Message, Rockland Art Center, West Nyack, NY
Ceasefire Day of Art and Community featuring Joyce J. Scott and Herb Massie,
Pennsylvania Avenue Branch, Pratt Library, Baltimore, MD
The Language of Things: Meaning and Value in Contemporary Jewellery, The Dowse Art
Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Uneasy Beauty: Discomfort in Contemporary Adornment, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton,
MA, Curator: Suzanne Ramljak
In Her Own Words, James E. Lewis Museum, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
The Circuitry of Joyce J. Scott: A Group Exhibition of Collaboration & Innovation,
Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA
2017 PhilAesthetic: 40 Years of Collecting African American Art, African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA
Current Reflections on the Natural & Manmade, Landmark Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
human·NATURE, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
Both Sides Now: Joyce J. Scott & Sonja Clark, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK
POWER, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, CA
Dark Humor: Joyce J. Scott & Peter Williams, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University,
Towson, MD, Curator: Susan Isaacs (catalogue)
Tell Me More, Unique Perspectives on Our Collective Human Experience, McColl Center
for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC, Curator: Mark Richard Leach
Guns, Violence and Justice, Metal Museum, Memphis, TN
16-18 I.M.A.G.I.N.E Peace Now, Wellington B. Gary Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenvill, NC;
Traveled to Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA; Art Seed, New Albany, IN; Kentuky
Center for African American Heritage, Louisville, KY; Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2016 Baltimore Rising, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Tony Shore
Generations: Joyce J. Scott | Sonya Clark, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse (catalogue)
Impact! The Legacy of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Katzen Arts Center, American University,
Washington, DC,
Curator: Leslie King-Hammond
Renee Stout: Circle of Friends, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC
Curator: Jack Rasmussen
Strung Together: Beads, People and History, University of Oregon, The Museum of Natural
and Cultural History, Eugene, OR
Another Better World, Bas Com Art Center, Highlands, NC, Curator: David Brown
Dark Humor: African American Art from the University Museums, Delaware Art Museum,
Wilmington, DE, Curator: Tiffany Barber
2015 Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
WPA: 40th Anniversary–Washington Produced Artists, WPA, Washington, DC
Curator: Laura Roulet
Passing from One Hand: Betty Cooke, Joyce J. Scott, Shana Kroiz and a Tradition of
Metalsmithing and Jewelry in Baltimore, Baltimore Jewelry Center, MD
Common Wealth/Art by African American Artists in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Bead, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
Schmuck 1970–2015: Sammlung Bollmann Collection, MAK Museum of Applied Art, Vienna, Austria
2014 The Brides of Anansi: Fiber and Contemporary Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art,
Atlanta, GA
, Curators: Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King-Hammond
Unique by Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund: Second Act, Katzen Arts Center, American University
Museum, Washington, DC
Multiple Exposures/Jewelry and Photography, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Unveiled: Works from the UMUC Art Collections, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
13-14 Ashe to Amen: African-Americans and Biblical Imagery, Museum of Biblical Art, New
York, NY; traveled to: Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD; Dixon Gallery and
Gardens, Memphis, TN, Curator: Leslie King-Hammond
2013 Glasstress: White Light/White Heat, 55th International Venice Art Biennale, Palazzo
Cavalli, Italy
, Curator: Adriano Berengo (catalogue)
Fear Strikes Back, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC. Curator: Helen Frederick
Dazzling Dancing Beads, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND (traveling)
Reloading the Canon: African Traditions in Contemporary Art, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Artist to Artist, McColl Center for Arts + Innovation, Charlotte, NC
Philosophy of Figure, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
2012 Glasstress Beirut, Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon. Curator: Adriano Berengo (catalogue)
Glasstress New York: New Art from the Venice Biennales, Museum of Arts and Design,
New York, NY
. Curator: Adriano Berengo (catalogue)
11-12 Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists, developed and organized by the Reginald F. Lewis
Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore, MD; traveled to Museum of
Fine Art, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, Curator: Michelle Joan Wilkinson (catalogue)
Prospect.2: Works by Joyce J. Scott and Nick Cave, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, Woldenberg
Art Center, New Orleans, LA. Curators: Dan Camron and Sally Main
2011
Congress Taipei-International Craft Design Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
Open Mind, International Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition- History and the New Material,
Sungkok Art Museum, Sungkok, Korea
Corridor, The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, Curators: Irene Hofmann and Laura Roulet
2010 Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
Synderman/Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Craft in America, Silver Dollar City’s 50th Anniversary, Branson, MO
Brooching the Subject: One of a Kind, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
The Harvey Gantt Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
Loot, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Global Africa, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2009 Intrinsic Trio: Sanford Biggers, Sam Gilliam, Joyce Scott, Goya Contemporary Gallery,
Baltimore, MD, Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
NuVoodoo (traveling: African American Art Conference) West North Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
Art Under Glass, Baltimore Conservatory, Baltimore, MD
2008 A People’s Geography: The Spaces of African American Life, The Reginald F. Lewis
Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore, MD
Accumulation: Joyce J. Scott, Madeleine Keesing & Line Bruntse, York Arts, York, PA
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
2007 Kickin’ It With Joyce J. Scott, Houston Center for Contemporary Art, TX
Curator: George Ciscle/Exhibits USA
Kickin’ It With Joyce J. Scott, Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, FL
Curator: George Ciscle/Exhibits USA
Glassware, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2006 Basket [R]evolution/Unique Baskets and Vessels, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Shine On, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Women’s Glass: From Michigan Artists and Collections, University of Michigan,
Dearborn, MI
Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
(catalogue)
Beads, Pismo Fine Art Glass, Denver, CO
Loot, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Making Sense, Robert Lehman Gallery at Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
Dynamic Glass, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
In the Extreme, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Handmade/Fine Art Craft and Design, New World School of the Arts Gallery, Miami, FL
At Freedom's Do/Challenging Slavery in Maryland, The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of
Maryland, Baltimore, MD
African-American History and Culture, The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD
2005 Artist’s Salute Artpace, Christie’s Auction House, New York, NY
The Arts of Crafts in America, Chautauqua Center for the Arts, Chautauqua, NY
Bodies of Evidence: Contemporary Perspectives, Rhode Island School of Design Museum,
Providence, RI
Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum, NY (catalogue)
Little Rascals/Images of Children in Contemporary Art, Linda Ross Contemporary Art &
Projects, P.F. Galleries, Royal Oaks, MI
Searching for Self, Loyola College, Jolio Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Soft Openings, The Katzen Gallery, American University, Washington, DC
10 African-American Artists, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
2004 An Exploration of Polymer Clay, Kentucky Museum of Art & Design, Louisville, KY
Sexing the Myths: Arts of Rebellion, Resource Center for Activism and Arts, Washington, DC
2003 Chess, Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
Conversations, Evergreen House of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Happy Sooja, Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Washington, DC
Jewelry Hard and Soft/Plastic Fiber Glass, Society of Arts & Craft, Boston, MA
Jewels & Gems, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Magic Markers: Objects of Transformation, Des Moines Art Center, Edmundson Art
Foundation, Inc., Des Moines, IA
Select WPA, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)
Thinking with Blood, Conflict & Culture in the American South, Running Films, Inc.,
Kuttawa, KY (traveling, catalogue)
Threading the Eye, Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Women in the Arts/My Life in Art, Hood College, Frederick, MD
2002 The Artful Teapot: 20th-Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection, curated and
distributed by Exhibitions International, New York, NY (traveling, catalogue)
The Big Picture Take III, Auction & Exhibition, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Glass Now 2002, The National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Joyce J. Scott/Hot Flashes, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Migrant Workers for the Arts: Prints & Sculpture by Joyce J. Scott, Second Street Gallery,
Charlottesville, VA
National Black Fine Art Show NYC, Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Threads on the Edge, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Traditions/Generations: The Intricate, Irreverent & Irrepressible Quilt & Beadworks of
Mother/Daughter Artists Elizabeth Talford Scott & Joyce J. Scott, Bush Barn Art
Center, Salem, OR
True Colors: Meditations on the American Spirit/An Artistic Response to 9/11, Meridian
International Center, White-Meyer Galleries, Washington, DC
2001 Broaching it Diplomatically: A Tribute to Madeline K. Albright, Schmuck Museum,
Pforzheim, Germany
Exploring Identity: Work by Contemporary African American Women, Maier Museum of
Art, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, VA (catalogue)
Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art by African Americans, Baltimore Museum of Art,
Baltimore, MD
A Shriek from an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
2001: American Craft Odyssey, James Renwick Alliance/Craft Auction, Washington, DC;
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI (traveling, catalogue)
2000 Beadwork in America: A National Invitational Exhibition, Haydon Gallery, Nebraska Arts
Association, Lincoln, NB
Biennial 2000, Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE (catalogue)
Les Arts Decoratif Contemporains, Kent Fine Arts, New York, NY; Kent, CT; Paris, France
The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits by 60 Women Artists, D.C. Moore
Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Progress of the World’s Women (An International Art Exhibition), The United Nations,
New York, NY
Pure Vision: American Bead Artists, Exhibits USA, National Traveling Exhibition (catalogue)
Women Designers in the USA 1900–2000: Diversity & Differences, The Bard Graduate
Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, NY (catalogue)
1999 Borderscapes (with Susan Plum), Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
Stereo Typical Errors (with Michael Ray Charles), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Re/Righting History, Counter Narrative by Contemporary African Artists, Katonah Museum
of Art, Katonah, NY
1998 Centennial Exhibition: Fiber, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Exposed Treasures, The Tuttle Gallery, McDonogh School, Baltimore, MD
Glass Today, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Jewelry Moves: Ornament for the 21st Century, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
1997 Craft, Richard Salmon Gallery, London, England (traveling, catalogue)
Celebrating American Craft, The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen,
Denmark (traveling, catalogue)
Extended Foreplay, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Recent Glass Sculptures: A Union of Ideas, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Stitchers & Beaders: America’s Best, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
Threads: Fiber Art in the 90s, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ (catalogue)
1996 Signs & Symbols: African American Quilts from the Rural South, Museum of American Folk
Art, New York, NY (traveling, catalogue)
Breaking Barriers, Recent American Craft, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
(traveling, catalogue)
The 14th International Glass Invitational, Habitat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists, Spellman
College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (traveling, catalogue)
The Ubiquitous Bead II & The Rebellious Bead, Bellevue Museum of Art, Bellvue, WA
Baubles, Bangles & Beads: Jewelry from the Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
1995 Elizabeth T. Scott & Joyce J. Scott, The Tubman Museum, Macon, GA
Hand Me Downs-Innovation with a Tradition, African-American Cultural Center,
Charlotte, NC
Relatively Speaking/Mothers & Daughters in Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten
Island, NY (traveling, catalogue)
Division of Labor: Women’s Work in Contemporary Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
Breaking Barriers, Recent American Craft, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
(traveling, catalogue)
1994 Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
Cleveland, OH (traveling, catalogue)
Bad Girls, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
World Glass Now ’94, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan (catalogue)
Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: The Legacy of African American Craft Art, National
Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio (traveling, catalogue)
1993 Subversive Crafts, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA (catalogue)
Outcry: Artists Answer AIDS, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
(traveling, catalogue)
Ahead of Fashion: Hats of the 20th Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA (catalogue)
USA Today in Fiber Art, Nederlands Textiel Museum, Tillburg, The Netherlands (catalogue)
1992 Modern Jewelry: 1964 to the Present–The Helen Williams Drutt Collection, Museum of
Applied Art, Helsinki, Finland
The New Narrative: Contemporary Fiber Art, Visual Arts Center, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC (traveling, catalogue)
Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Elizabeth & Joyce J. Scott, Afro-American Historical & Cultural
Museum, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
1991 Places with a Past: New Site-Specific Art, Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC (catalogue)
Beauty is a Story, The Kruithuis Museum, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (catalogue)
Glass: Material in the Service of Meaning, Tacoma Art Museum, WA (catalogue)
1990 American Dreams, American Extremes, The Kruithuis Museum, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Art in Fashion/Fashion in Art, New Orleans Contemporary Arts, New Orleans, LA
Southern Black Aesthetic, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
(traveling, catalogue)
1989 Pyramid/Brandywine Print Show, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Elizabeth T. Scott/Joyce J. Scott, Family Traditions/Recent Works, Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Structure and Surface: Beads in Contemporary American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts
Center, Sheboygan, WI
Stitching Memories: African American Story Quilts, Williams College Museum of Art,
Williamstown, MA (catalogue)
1988 Art as a Verb, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD (traveling, catalogue)
International Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland (catalogue)
The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (traveling, catalogue)
1987 Tangents: Art in Fiber, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD (traveling, catalogue)
Art in Black America, Terada Warehouse Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986 Crossing Over/Changing Places, United States Information Services (traveling, catalogue)
Other Gods: Containers of Belief, Fondo del Sol Visual Art Center, Washington, DC
(traveling, catalogue)
1985 Arts of Adornment: Wearable Art from Africa and the Diaspora, Gallery Association of
New York State, New York, NY (traveling)
1984 Linda DePalma & Joyce J. Scott, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Art Against Apartheid, The Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
Three Generations of African American Quilt Makers, the Scott-Caldwell Family, Fondo
del Sol Visual Art Center, Washington, DC (traveling, catalogue)
1983 Ritual & Myth: A Survey of African American Arts, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
(catalogue)
1982 Surface/Structure: Fiber of African American Arts, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
(catalogue)
1981 Good as Gold, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (traveling, catalogue)
1980 Sculpture 1980, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (catalogue)
1979 Contemporary African American Crafts, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
1978 Maryland Biennial, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
1976 Maryland Biennial, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2017 Tuvan throat singers, Alash, with vocalist Joyce J. Scott, beatboxer Shodekeh, and Raw
Silk, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
2016 Art to Dine For–Woman Power, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
2012 Thunder Thigh Review: For Fat Women Only–And the Courageous Men Who Want to
Attend, Theater Project, Baltimore, MD
2011 Miss Veronica’s Veil, Prospect.2 Biennial, New Orleans, LA
Craft in America, PBS
2010 Art Promotional Trailers, CW, Baltimore, MD
2006 Walk A Mile in My Drawers, The Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD
Race and Pedagogy Conference, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Joyce J. Scott, Washington Correctional Center for Women, Tacoma, WA
Jumpin’ Keys with Joyce, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
2005 Walk A Mile in My Drawers, The Maryland Summer Center for the Arts, Salisbury University,
Salisbury, MD
The Arts as Multicultural Ambassador, Empowering the Creative Community (with
Lorraine Whittlesey), The Multicultural Institute, Towson University, Towson, MD
2004 People in My Head, The National Black Arts Festival (lecturer and performer), Spellman
University, Atlanta, GA
Lea & Joyce: Righteous Rhythm & Romance (concert with Lea Gilmore), The Creative
Alliance, Baltimore, MD
Ebony & Ivory VI/No Visible Panty Lines (concert with Lorraine Whittlesey), The Creative
Alliance, Baltimore, MD
Commencement (performance with Lorraine Whittlesey), Tai Sophia Institute for the
Healing Arts, Clarksville, MD
Baltimore Composers Forum Concert (composer/performer), Goucher College, Towson, MD
Baltimore Advertising Association’s Addy Awards (presenter), Hippodrome Theatre, Baltimore, MD
2003 COCA (cabaret), St. Louis, MO
Lysistrata Project, The Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD
The New Barbarians, The Baltimore Vivat Festival, The Walters Art Museum (commissioned
performance), Baltimore, MD
Slaves & Slavs, Gertrude’s Restaurant, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Walk A Mile in My Drawers, Appalachia State University (commissioned performance), Boone, NC
The Patterson Grand Opening, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
MO’POE, The Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD
The Vagina Monologues (with MICA students), Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2002 Divalicious! (conceived and performed for the Women’s Housing Coalition) with guests Ethel Ennis,
Ruby Glover, and Lea Gilmore, Center Stage, Pearlstone Theatre, Baltimore, MD
Ebony & Ivory V: Unleashed (with Lorraine Wittlesey), Swirnow Theatre/Mattin Center,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Kitchen Party, Women’s Housing Coalition, Baltimore, MD
Slippery Slope, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2001 Linc at Ten (with Wynton and Ellis Marsalis, featured vocalist and mistress of ceremonies),
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD
Lorraine Whittlesey with Joyce J. Scott, The Yale Gordon Residency Program, Western
Maryland College, Westminster, MD
Ebony & Ivory IV: Clinton Comes to Harlem, music and satire with Lorraine Whittlesey and
Friends, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Common Ground on the Hill Music & Arts Festival (featured vocalist), Carroll County Farm
Museum, Westminster, MD
Freestyle (featured vocalist), Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1995 Generic Interference/Genetic Engineering, The Tubman Museum, Macon, GA
1994 The Body Politic: Creative Time, Cooper Union, New York, NY
1993 Generic Interference/Genetic Engineering, Diverse Works, Houston, TX; Baltimore
Museum of Art, MD
1990 Honey Chil’Milk (conceived by director Donald Byrd in collaboration with performers),
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Diverse Works, BACA, Brooklyn, NY
Women of Substance (written in collaboration with Kay Lawal, performed by Thunder
Thigh Revue–Scott & Lawal), Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1989 Generic Interference/Genetic Engineering, Progression Series, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD
Women of Substance, The Bottom Line, New York, NY
Mike’s Talent Show, Caroline’s, New York, NY
1988 Bite and Smile (performed by Thunder Thigh Revue–Scott & Lawal)
Alive from O Center, WNET, New York, NY
Women of Substance, The Edinburgh Festival, Scotland
Bathhurst Street Theatre, Toronto, Canada
The Stagedoor Festival, Amsterdam, Denmark
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
RESIDENCIES
2022 Guest Artist Pavilion Project, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
2014 Monkeybiz, Cape Town, South Africa
Ubuhle Workshop, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Wheaton Arts/Glass Studio, Millville, NJ
2013 McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC
2012 Venice Projects, Berengo Studio, Murano, Italy
2011 Venice Projects, Berengo Studio, Murano, Italy
2006 Roland Park Country School, Baltimore, MD
The New School of the Arts, Miami, FL
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Maryland Summer Center for the Arts, Salisbury, MD
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2003 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1999 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
The University of Ohio, Akron, OH
1998 Goya-Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Tennessee Technical University, Cooksville, TN
The Collaborative Print Workshop, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1996 Artpace, San Antonio, TX
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
The Collaborative Print Workshop, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
1992 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
1990 Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper, New Brunswick, NJ University of Delaware,
Newark, DE
LECTURES
2023 A Conversation with Joyce J. Scott and Tim Tate, Hillwood, Washington, DC
2022 GAPP Artist Talk, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY 11217
2020 University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
In This Time of Revelation, Keynote speech for the Oral History Association’s Annual
Conference
Conversations: Joyce J. Scott, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, moderated by
Patterson Sims
2019 Joyce J. Scott and Oletha DeVane in Conversation, Baltimore Museum of Art,
Baltimore, MD
Joyce J. Scott: Truths, Foresights, and Persistence, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Joyce J. Scott: Truths and Visions, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL. Sponsored by
Myrna and Sheldon Palley.
Why I'm Joyce, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, WI
Voices: Joyce J. Scott & Oletha DeVane, The Church of the Redeemer, Baltimore,
MD, Hosted by The Baltimore Museum of Art
2018 Baltimore Homecoming artist panel Genius in the Hood featuring: Joyce J. Scott, Amy
Sherald & Paul Rucker, moderated by Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims at the SNF
Parkway Theater, Baltimore, MD
Like Minds: A Conversation with Artists Joyce J. Scott, Sonya Clark, and Jeffrey Gibson,
Grounds For Sculpture Hamilton Township, NJ
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
MacArthur Fellows in Dialogue: Joyce J. Scott and David Finkel, Grounds For Sculpture,
Hamilton Township, NJ
2017 Women to Watch, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2016 Annual Distinguished Artist Panel, College Arts Association Conference, Washington, DC
2015 Speaker Series: Craft + Defiance, Joyce J. Scott and Marquis Revlon, hosted by The
Contemporary, Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore, MD
2014 Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
Portland Bead Society, Portland, OR
International Flameworkers Conference, Salem, NJ
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
2013 Fiberart International 2013 Forum, keynote speaker, Fiberart Guild of Pittsburgh, Inc., PA
2012 Humorous Beadwork, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
Textiles & Politics, Textile Society of America, 13th Biennial Symposium, Washington, DC
Motivated by the Challenge to Live and Create Authentically, Detroit Institute of the Arts, MI
2005 Women of Vision, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
2004 Women in the History of Art (with Lorraine Whittlesey), Maryland Institute, College of Art,
Baltimore, MD
2002 Keynote speaker, Maryland College of Art & Design, Kensington, MD
Keynote speaker, 5th Annual Waldorf School of Baltimore Civil Rights Commemorative
Brunch, Baltimore, MD
Keynote speaker, Department of Art, Longwood College, Farmville, VA
2000 Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Berengo, Adriano. Glasstress Beirut. Venice: Venice Projects, 2012.
Berengo, Adriano. Glasstress New York: New Art from the Venice Biennales. Milan: Skira, 2012.
Brite, Jean Fassett. Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection: Fiber Art Gathers Momentum.
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993.
Buszek, Maria Elena. Extra/Ordinary Craft and Contemporary Art. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Ciscle, George. Joyce J. Scott: Kickin’ It With the Old Masters. Exh. cat. Baltimore: Baltimore
Museum of Art and Maryland Institute College of Art, 2000.
Clark, Garth. The Artful Teapot: 20th-Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection. New York:
Watson-Guptill, 2004.
Dark Humor: Joyce J. Scott and Peter Williams. Exh. cat. Towson: Center for the Arts, Towson
University, 2017.
Drutt English, Helen Beauty and the Unexpected, Modern and Comtempory American Crafts,
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023
George, Phyllis. Craft in America: Celebrating the Creative Work of the Hand. Fort Worth, TX:
The Summit Group, 1993.
Hanks, David. The Century of Modern Design: Selections from the Liliane and David M. Stewart
Collection. Paris: Flammarion SA, 2010.
Hector, Valerie. The Art of Beadwork: Historic Inspiration/ Contemporary Design. New York:
Watson-Guptill, 2005.
Ho mann, Irene and Laura Roulet. Corridor: Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.C. Washington,
D.C.: Art Museum of the Americas Organization of American States, 2011.
Intrinsic Trio: Sanford Biggers, Sam Gilliam, Joyce J. Scott. Baltimore: Goya Contemporary Gallery, 2009.
Joyce J. Scott: Li’l Lies & Purty Thangs. Baltimore: Goya Contemporary Gallery, 2010.
Joyce J. Scott: Messages. Cambridge: Mobilia Gallery, 2023.
Joyce J. Scott: On Kilter. Baltimore: Goya Contemporary Gallery, 2012.
Joyce J. Scott: Painful Death/Painless Life. Baltimore: Goya Contemporary Gallery, 2008.
Kee, Joan. The Geometries of Afro Asia, Art Beyond Solidarity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023.
L’Ecuyer, Kelly H. Jewelry by Artists: In the Studio, 1940–2000. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2010.
Lewin, Susan Grant. One of A Kind American Art Jewelry Today. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994.
Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection. Editors: Mark Godfrey and Katy Siegel.
New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2023.
Miller, Rosemary Reed. Threads of Time, The Fabric of History: Pro les of African American
Dressmakers and Designers, 1850
to the Present. Washington, D.C.: Toast and Strawberries Press, 2003.
Moss, Kathryn and Alice Scherer. The New Beadwork. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992.
Naeem, Asma. The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2023.
Pace, Linda and Jan Jarboe Russell. Dreaming Red, Creating Artpace. San Antonio, Texas:
Artpace, A Foundation of Contemporary Art, 2003.
Princenthal, Nancy. Unspeakable Acts. Published by Thames & Hudson, Fall 2019.
Princenthal, Nancy. “Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes.” New York
Times, January 5, 2018.
Raehse, Amy Eva. Can’t We All Just Get Along?. Goya Contemporary Gallery, 2014.
Reality, Times Two: Joyce J. Scott & Elizabeth Talford Scott. Exh. cat. Baltimore: Goya
Contemporary, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-7923-1491-9. Library of Congress: 2019909856.
Rouse, Ylva. Prospect.2 New Orleans. New Orleans: Prospect New Orleans, 2011.
Scott. Joyce J. “Carrying On.” In Joy James and Ruth Farmer, eds., Spirit, Space and Survival:
African American Women in (White) Academe. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Scott, Joyce J. Fearless Beadwork: Handwriting and Drawings from Hell. Rochester, NY: Visual
Studies Workshop, 1994.
Scott, Joyce J. “The Fleck.” In Robertson, Alma, ed. New Breezes of 1994: An Anthology of
African American Literary Voices. Baltimore: New Breezes, Inc., 1994.
Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Global Africa Project. New York: Museum of Arts and Design and Prestel, 2010.
Sims, Lowery Stokes. Maryland to Murano: Neckpieces and Sculptures. Museum of Arts and
Design, 2014.
Sims, Lowery Stokes, Leslie King-Hammond, and Amy Eva Raehse. Breathe. Baltimore: Goya
Contemporary Gallery and Goya-Girl Press, 2007.
Sims, Lowery Stokes and Sims, Paterson. Joyce J. Scott: Harriet Tubman and Other Truths,
Grounds For Sculpture, 2018.
Sims, Patterson. Truths and Visions. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 2015.
Spirtzen, Alice. The Jeweler’s Art: A Multimedia Approach. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1994.
Stankard, Paul. Studio Craft as Career: A Guide to Achieving Excellence In Art-Making. Schi er
Publishing, 2016.
Stegman, Carolyn B. Women of Achievement in Maryland History. Forestville: Anaconda Press, 2002.
The Global Africa Project. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Arts and Design, 2010.
To the Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. Greensboro: Weatherspoon Art Museum,
University of North Carolina, 2020.
Wahlman, Maude Southwell. Signs and Symbols: African Images in African-American Quilts.
New York: Studio Books, 1993.
Young, Brian. Unveiled: Works from the UMUC Art Collections. Largo: University of Maryland
University College, 2014.
Zelanski, Paul and Mary Pat Fisher. The Art of Seeing. Englewood Cli s, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.
VIDEO & FILM DOCUMENTATION
Craft in America: Jewelry, television program, executive producers and directors Carol Sauvion
and Patricia Bischetti, PBS, 2021.
Samantha Brown’s Places to Love, television program, directed by Sylvia Caminer and Michael
Indjeian, produced by Michael Indjeian and Sharon Dymmel, PBS, March 6, 2019.
Joyce J. Scott: Harriet Tubman and Other Truths, produced by Keith Pyatt for Grounds For
Sculpture, 2017. Adapted for State of the Arts. “Joyce J. Scott: New Work at Grounds For
Sculpture,” produced by Keith Pyatt. Aired on NJTV and WHYY, January 7, 2018.
An Authentic Life: Joyce J. Scott, directed by Jeanie M. Clark, 2012–13.
Craft in America: Messages, television program, executive producer and director Carol
Sauvion, PBS, 2011.
Try Me, Private Sector Productions, original music by Lorraine Whittlesey, sung by Joyce J. Scott, 2001.
Stop Asking, We Exist, American Craft Museum, 1999.
The Silver Needle: The Legacy of Elizabeth & Joyce Scott, directed by Rebecca Crumlish, Osiris
Productions, Washington, DC, 1990.