UWM Student Union - Union Art Gallery _Exhibitions and Special Events

BLESSED: The Work of Joyce Scott

February 24 - March 31, 2006
Opening Reception February 24, 5pm-8pm

Joyce Scott is a sculptor, jeweler, printmaker, installation artist, performance artist, and educator. Drawing from influences of African and Native American cultures, comic books, television, contemporary American culture, and the streets of her urban Baltimore neighborhood, Scott is renowned for her remarkable creations of social commentary.

This exhibition includes some of Scott's prints, glass sculpture, beaded sculpture and her newer mosaic work. Reflecting on her life and art making practices, Joyce admits to being blessed. She understands that it is not just she who is involved in her art making, but believes there is a greater power that contributes to the work that she does. She says, “ I come from a long line of African-America visual and performance artists who alchemized their surroundings without thought of great fame. Quilters, weavers, potters, blacksmiths, singers and storytellers have all coexisted in me.' Her job, she says, is to agitate viewers out of their continuous and sometimes complacent ways of thinking. She works to force the issues of racism, sexism and class out from under the rug and compel us into a dialogue with each other. Working with ideas and images of the past, present and future, Scott creates characters and environments that serve as provocateurs to stir us out of our slumber and encourage us to address the hard questions. Because of her successful outcomes, it is her audience who are truly blessed.

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here are some higlights from Joyce's performance:



here are some higlights from the opening:


here are some higlights from the workshop:


here are the higlights from the "Uncle Tom Peeping Tom" talk: