Baltimore, MD | Curator-Led Tour of Joyce J. Scott: Walk A Mile in My Dreams at the Baltimore Museum of Art

Joyce J. Scott, Joyce’s Neckace (detail). Image courtesy Baltimore Museum of Art.

ArtTable community members are invited on a special tour of Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams, led by Cecilia Wichmann, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art and co-curator of the exhibition. 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. For five decades, Scott (born Baltimore, MD, 1948) 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. 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.