Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams - Baltimore - Until 14-7-2024

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Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218


Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams

Until 14th July 2024

Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams is the summative career retrospective of one of the most prolific and boundary-breaking artists of our time.

The New York Times says Joyce J. Scott, “uses humor, every bit as much as art…to open up difficult conversations about race and inequality and to build community in her hometown.”

Born in Baltimore in 1948, Joyce J. Scott grapples with profound social, historical, racial, economic, and personal challenges that concern society at large in dazzling beadwork, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, printmaking, and performance. For five decades, she has upended hierarchies of art and craft, insisting that artistic expression is that “extra inch of life” that nourishes the soul even in the most challenging circumstances. Best known for her virtuosic use of beads and glass, Joyce J. Scott’s works across all media beguile viewers with beauty and humor while confronting racism, sexism, ecological devastation, and complex family dynamics.

Co-organized with the Seattle Art Museum and developed in close collaboration with the artist, this comprehensive career retrospective reveals the full breadth of Scott’s utterly unique vision through nearly 140 objects, from her woven tapestries and soft sculpture of the 1970s to her audacious genre-defying performances of the 1980s, and her ascendancy as a sculptor of astonishing social force and formal ingenuity.

The exhibition also features a participatory weaving and storytelling environment, conceived by the artist as a hub for structured and informal programming. An expansive scholarly catalog accompanies the exhibition.

Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams 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.

Opening hours: Check website.

Admission: Free

https://artbma.org/exhibition/joyce-j-s ... my-dreams/