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Title:	Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott
Date:	11/12/2023 - 4/28/2024
Address:	The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218
Location:	Baltimore, MD
Hours:	Wednesday, Friday - Sunday: 10am - 5pm, Thursday: 10am - 9pm
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://artbma.org/exhibition/eyewinkers-tumbleturds-and-can ...
Contact Info:	(443) 573-1700

Details:

Twenty-five years ago, the Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) inaugural Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) organized a landmark retrospective of Elizabeth Talford Scott’s vibrant mixed-media fiber works. This fall, the BMA is partnering with MICA and the Estate of Elizabeth Talford Scott at Goya Contemporary to build upon that legacy with an exhibition guest-curated by MICA Curator-in-Residence Emeritus George Ciscle in dialogue with a new generation of EDS students. Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott will feature 20 works by the artist that bridge the gap between fine art and craft. Elizabeth Talford Scott inherited a creative legacy from generations of craftspeople in her family who honed their expertise and persisted in their artistry through the deprivations of slavery and its aftermath in sharecropping, migration, and segregated city life on their quest for a life of freedom. Her innovative fiber works incorporate stones, buttons, shells, bones, sequins, beads, and other unconventional objects to imagine personal and worldly narratives and symbols that reference flowers, animals, astronomy, insects, sea creatures, monsters, dreams, superstitions, and good luck charms.