Foreword / José Carlos Diaz and Asma Naeem
Curatorial acknowledgments / Catharina Manchanda and Cecilia Wichmann
Walk a mile in my dreams / Catharina Manchanda and Cecilia Wichmann
Plates
Connecting generations. To steward the arrival of the sun / Malcolm Peacock ; Mind to mind, face to face: a conversation with Joyce J. Scott and Leslie King Hammond ; You have to stay / Ashley Minner Jones
Staging conversations. Hungry for humor / Tiffany E. Barber ; Valerie Cassel Oliver in conversation with Joyce J. Scott ; Excerpt from Aspects of Performance in the Work of Black American Women Artists (1988) / Lowery Stokes Sims ; Excerpt from Postcolonial Performance and Installation Art (1998) / Krista A. Thompson ; Remembering the thickness of our thighs and our relationship / Kay Lawal-Muhammad
Animating beadwork. Baubles, bangles, and beads: Joyce J. Scott belies, beguiles, and bewilders / Lowery Stokes Sims ; Beading brilliance: Joyce J. Scott and Yorùbá bead artistry / Henry John Drewal ; All the feelings, all the complications / Jeffrey Gibson
Learning in community. Carrying on (1993) / Joyce J. Scott ; Beyond thunder thighs to cosmic thunder / Oletha DeVane ; Pachyderms and vulvas / Sonya Clark ; Joyce Scott the teacher / William C. Rhodes III ; A history of radical praxis, Black aesthetics, and liberation in Baltimore / Angela N. Carroll ; Joyce J. Scott: struggle and joy in the Druid Hill Park Memorial Pool (2014) / Graham Coreil-Allen
Chronology / Catharina Manchanda, Deyane Moses, and Cecilia Wichmann, with drawings by Joyce J. Scott
Checklist of the exhibition.