Judith Scott
Study Center
Judith Scott (1943–2005) was an American fiber artist whose work is held in major collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the American Folk Art Museum--------.
Scott began making sculpture in 1987, following a workshop with fiber artist Sylvia Seventy. She communicated through means other than spoken language, and developed a singular artistic practice of wrapping and binding found objects until the original forms were transformed beyond recognition. Her finished works are dense and enigmatic, concealing their contents while radiating a powerful sense of intention and interiority.
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“Her art was unique because she would form things out of things that you wouldn't think she would form it out of. She did all kinds of different things. She had more odd art than anybody else did.”
- Dinah Shapiro, Creative Growth Artist since 1983
This study center was made possible by the Council on Library and Information Resources, which helped launch the Creative Growth Public Archive. Access over 2500 historic art pieces and ephemera, all in the public domain. Thank you to our friends Farley Gwazda, Katherine Sherwood, Eliot D’Silva, Tara Tucker, and Gretchen Scott for your help with this important project.