Joyce J. Scott : walk a mile in my dreams / edited by Catharina Manchanda and Cecilia Wichmann, with contributions by TIffany E. Barber and 16 others.

Seattle, WA : Seattle Art Museum ; Baltimore, MD : Baltimore Museum of Art, [2024]

New Haven : Yale University Press

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, March 24-July 14, 2024, and the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, October 17, 2024-January 20, 2025.

"This essential retrospective of genre-defying artist and MacArthur Fellow Joyce J. Scott (b. 1948) showcases her expansive and versatile career. From early textiles and wearables, to performances and public artworks, to celebrated beaded sculptures and signature necklaces, her innovative oeuvre centers on the ancient, global technologies of needle and thread, beadwork, salvage, song, and storytelling. Interviews with Scott and essays from an extraordinary group of artists and scholars explore this dynamic practice, rooted in place, community, and intergenerational knowledge. Extensive new photography and rich archival images reveal a dazzling, provocative body of work that makes difficult subjects intimately felt, confronting racism, sexism, classism, ableism, and histories of trauma through wearable art and exquisite sculpture. With humor and pathos, Scott twists menacing stereotypes into grotesque and tender retorts that spur conversation and reflection, grief and laughter, learning and healing."--Back cover.

English

May 16, 2024

Includes bibliographical references.