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February Issue
2010
McColl Center
for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Joyce Scott
The McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, is presenting the exhibit, Recall, featuring the work of Baltimore native, Joyce Scott, in her first Charlotte solo exhibition, on view through Mar. 20, 2010.
Scott's work challenges boundaries by dealing with difficult social subjects and the artist's role in contemporary society.
Merging social commentary
with divisive social issues, Scott creates exquisitely crafted
works of art that prompt viewers to do more than just observe. Her
work is grounded in beadwork, weaving, quilting and glass and
draws on influences as wide-ranging as her media. Embracing versatility
as an artist, Scott explores themes of social injustice, gender
and class, often in a straight forward manner or with an ironic
sense of humor while embracing her heritage and history.
Scott's mastery in a wide range of media stems from growing up
as a third-generation craft artist, having received her earliest
art lessons from her mother, renowned and celebrated textile artist,
Elizabeth Talford Scott. She thoughtfully incorporates materials
that reflect her heritage as a mix of African-American, American
Indian and Scottish. Scott explains that her layered, intricate,
content-laden and humorous approach gives her work wide appeal
while still staying true to her upbringing.
Scott received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education from
Maryland Institute College of Art in 1970 and earned her Master
of Fine Arts in Craft at Mexico's Institute Allende. She has exhibited
widely across the country, and was featured in a major retrospective
of her work over the past 30 years at The Baltimore Museum of
Art and is the recipient of prestigious honors from the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation,
Anonymous Was a Woman and the American Craft Council.
McColl Center for Visual Art is an artists' residency program and gallery dedicated to promoting contemporary art and supporting artists regionally, nationally, and internationally. The Center's goal is to present art and artists in a way that engages and enriches the public while revealing the creative process through open studios, outreaches, community projects, and educational programs.
McColl Center for Visual Art is supported, in part, with a Basic Operating Grant from the Arts and Science Council as well as the North Carolina Arts Council with funding from the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art and the generosity of corporate and individual donors.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call Michael Andrews
at 704/332-5535 ext. 15 or visit (www.mccollcenter.org).
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