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Maryland Printmakers
(Archived version from June, 1998 - click here for current)
An Interview with Joyce Scott By Camellia Blackwell
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Misty Man I, Joyce J. Scott, 1998, Monotype |
Born and raised in Baltimore city, a product of the Baltimore City Public Schools as well as the Maryland Institute College of Art, Joyce Scott has struggled over the past 25 years to achieve international status as an acclaimed visual and performing artist. Recently, over the course of four days, she produced nearly one hundred monoprints at the Goya Girl Press. These prints were exhibited in her solo exhibition entitled "Things That Go Bump In The Night" on view from February 2 to March 21, 1998, at the Goya Girl Press Art Gallery. Formerly acclaimed as a Sculptor and bead artist, Joyce did not attempt printmaking for many years. Previously turned off by the toxicity, tediousness, and bulky equipment involved in printmaking, Joyce now has no qualms about producing prints or even creating installations, murals, paintings or drawings. Although she feels the need express herself as an artist in any medium, printmaking allows her lucidity, freedom, and the advantage of multiple copies. A recent recipient of the "Anonymous Was a Woman" grant of $25,000, she has also received the Lewis Comfort Tiffany foundation grant of $20,000. As an independent professional artist, she has been awarded commission to produce several public works of art in Maryland. She has taught at the many universities and artist colonies such as Morgan State University and Haystack, Maine where she will be teaching again during the summer. Having been a resident printmaker at Pyramid Atlantic and Rutgers Innovation Contemporary Printmaking Center, Joyce welcomes the opportunity to create prints in new and unusual ways. She has made prints using beads at the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. At Philcuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, Joyce was selected, in two occasions, for an artist-in-residency where she made prints on sandblasted glass. "I am my own best agent," says Joyce, who works out her own financial agreements with publishers and galleries. She is represented by Martha Macks of Goya Girl Press in Baltimore. Her works are also included in many public and private collections to include the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Montreal, Canada. Her advice to other artists is to "stay fresh, take risks, and keep trying to amaze and challenge yourself." This, indeed, is what Joyce had done in the realm of printmaking.
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