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You Have To Get New Jokes Because Blacks Aren’t The Largest Minority Anymore, 2007
Peyote stitched glass beads, blown & painted glass, fabric, thread, wood, mixed media
23″ x 10″ x 10″

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Oh Hell No!, 2007, Peyote stitched glass beads, blown glass, wire & thread © Joyce J. Scott

Joyce J. Scott: Breathe

February 23rd – April 20th, 2007
*Illustrated catalogue available.

Essays by: Lowery Stokes Sims & Leslie King Hammond

Reception: Friday, February 23rd 6:00 – 8:00PM

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10:00AM – 5:30PM/ Saturday: 12:00PM – 5:00PM

Scott, a Baltimore native, has spent the past 30 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 60 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., the Orlando Art Museum, Florida and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 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.

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