Joyce J. Scott

African-American (born 1948)

Joyce J. Scott, a Baltimore native, has spent the past thirty years using art to question the ways in which people use race to define themselves and others. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Scott has worked in many media, from beaded sculpture to prints.

Scott’s work has appeared in more than sixty solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the American Craft Museum, New York; The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., as well as others. She has been awarded honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council and Anonymous was a Woman.