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Aloft

Artist Joyce Scott (American, Born 1948)

Date2016-2017

Dimensions37 × 10 × 10 in. (94 × 25.4 × 25.4 cm)

MediumHand-blown Murano glass processes, beads, thread

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of Ronald L. and Cynthia B. Thompson

Object number

2025.201

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 06

Descriptiona blue figure that seems to emerge from its beaded base; beads interlock with, accumulate on, and bind the form.

Published References"Joyce J. Scott, Harriet Tubman and Other Truths". Edited by Authors: Patterson Sims & Lowery Stokes Sims/Text Editors: Donna Ghelerter & Eileen Watkins. New Jersey: Grounds For Sculpture / Distributor: Distributed ARTBOOK, 2018. Manchanda, Catharina (ed.), Joyce Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams (Baltimore, 2024).Exhibition HistoryJoyce J. Scott: Harriet Tubman and Other Truths, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton Township. October 20, 2017-April 1, 2018, Curators: Lowery Stokes Sims & Patterson Sims. Reality, Times Two: Joyce J. Scott & Elizabeth Talford Scott, Goya Contemporary, LLC, Baltimore. May 10 - July 16, 2019, Curator: Amy Eva Raehse. Joyce Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams (Baltimore Art Museum, March 24, 2024- July 14, 2024; Seattle Art Museum, Oct 17, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025). Lent to Toledo Museum of Art Feb 2025.