Conversation: Artist Joyce J. Scott and Curator Joanne Hyppolite
Joyce J. Scott, War, What Is It Good For, Absolutely Nothin, Say It Again, 2022. Courtesy Mobilia Gallery. © The Joyce J. Scott Art Trust and Archives, Courtesy Mobilia Gallery / TALP. Photo: Michael Koryta
A conversation between artist Joyce J. Scott and curator Joanne Hyppolite
Held in conjunction with Joyce J. Scott: Declarations, join us for a conversation between the artist and Joanne Hyppolite, supervisory curator of the African Diaspora at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. In this conversation Scott will reflect on her personal and artistic history, tracing a celebrated career that has challenged the perceived hierarchy between craft and fine art. Drawing on the influence of her ancestors—including her mother, the celebrated American quiltmaker Elizabeth Talford Scott—and her Baltimore upbringing, Scott will explore how material culture, history, memory, beauty, humor, courage, and storytelling converge in her work.
Introduced by Laura Giles, exhibition curator and the Museum’s Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings.
Joyce J. Scott was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the Instituto Allende in Mexico. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016 and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019.
LATE THURSDAYS! The Museum’s Late Thursdays programming is made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970.
