Stacy Jo Scott (born 1981) is an American artist, art educator, curator, and writer based in

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, who works in ceramics and digital fabrication.

Early life and education

Stacy Jo Scott grew up in

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. Scott earned a BFA (

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) in Ceramics from the

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in 2010, and an MFA in Ceramics at

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in 2012. Scott resided in Nottingham Cooperative in

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from 2000 to 2003

Career

Scott generates artworks in ceramics and other media with digital production methods. She refers to her creative practice as tracking "the shifting edge between the seen and unseen." She says she creates objects "in the continuum between technology and embodiment, materiality and the virtual, order and chance, language and silence." Scott works both independently and collaboratively as a part of the Craft Mystery Cult Performance collaborative, described as "a group tracing the relationship of object materiality and human interaction".

Art education

In 2013, Scott was the Franzen Fellow for Digital Craft at Colorado State University-Fort Collins. From 2015 to 2017, she was a Lecturer in the Department of Art Practice at the

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. She also has taught at The Golden Dome School For Performing Planetary Rites. Scott joined the faculty of the Art Department of the

in 2017.

Curatorial practice

Speaking about "New Morphologies: Studio Ceramics and Digital Practices" at

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, which she curated with Del Harrow in 2013, Scott said, "What most excites me about digital fabrication are the ways in which it continues to enact our very human striving to bring form to an ideal." The exhibit highlighted "work that emerges from the encounter between the physical materiality of ceramic objects and the ephemerality of digital information".

Selected exhibitions

* ''Rise Out of the Scattered Deep'', Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA. (2016) * ''Setting The Table'', with Iris Eichenberg, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI. (2013) * ''The Hapticon of the Craft Mystery Cult, Roots & Culture,'' Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL. (2012)

Selected publications

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References

External links

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Q & A: Stacy Jo Scott on Digital Technologies

Ephemeral Material: Digital Fabrication, Embodiment, and the Persistent Materiality of Transcendence
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