Cooper Hewitt says...
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Joyce Scott was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1948, the daughter of Charlie Scott Jr. and noted quilt maker Elizabeth Talford Scott. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art,graduating in 1970. She then went on and earned a Masters of Fine Arts from the Instituto Allende in Mexico. Later, Scott pursued further education at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and Haystack Mountain School of crafts in Maine. Scott's mother had tremendous influence on Scott's career, as she taught Scott appliqué quilting techniques and encouraged her to pursue her career as an artist as well.
Scott is also influenced by craft traditions in her extended family of "quilters, woodworkers, basketweavers, chair caners, planters and blacksmiths", where people developed skills in more than one craft so that they could survive. Her work is also influenced by African themes as she includes intricate and elaborate decorations on her pieces.
Scott's works are held by the Baltimore Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, the Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina, the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, and the Smithsonian Institution. She has won many awards and held solo exhibitions across the country.
