Joyce J. Scott
Habitat: In Baltimore
By Katherine McMahon
March 17, 2018
Joyce J. Scott
The sculptor, printmaker, performance artist, and jewelry designer Joyce J. Scott has lived in her West Baltimore home for more than 40 years. “I’m a neighborhood ‘around the way girl,’ but I aspired to global knowledge.” Though she has traveled extensively, she feels a sense of responsibility to her home city. “Any postindustrial city is having trials about race, economics, and class,” she said. “If art is part of social justice, we artists will keep doing what we’re doing. It’s not only good for the artist but for the entire community.” Scott, who was awarded a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2016, is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey. She will have her first solo show in New York in 20 years at Peter Blum Gallery in September.