{"id":5675,"date":"2017-04-10T14:02:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T18:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2018-05-20T23:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T03:27:28","slug":"dread-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/dread-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Dread Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1857\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5675-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/dreadscott.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/dreadscott.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/dreadscott.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6075 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Dread-Scott-01.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Dread-Scott-01.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Dread-Scott-01.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Dread-Scott-01.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Dread-Scott-01.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Dread-Scott-01.jpg?resize=559%2C420&amp;ssl=1 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreadscott.net\/\">Dread Scott<\/a> makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. \u00a0He first received national attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. President G.H.W. Bush called his art \u201cdisgraceful\u201d and the entire US Senate denounced this work and outlawed it when they passed legislation to \u201cprotect the flag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His work has been included in recent exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker art Center, the Brooklyn Museum and the Pori Art Museum in Finland as well as on view in America is Hard to See, the Whitney Museum\u2019s inaugural exhibition in their new building. In 2012, BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, presented his performance Dread Scott: Decision as part of their 30th Anniversary Next Wave Festival.\u00a0Jack Shainman and Winkleman Gallery in New York have exhibited recent work and his public sculptures have been installed at Logan Square in Philadelphia and Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, \u00a0and the Akron Art Museum.<\/p>\n<p>He is a recipient of a grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the MAP Fund, the Pollock Krasner Foundation and has been awarded a Socially Engaged Artists Fellowship from A Blade of Grass Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>He has been written about in <i>The New York Times, Art In America, Sculpture Magazine, ArtNews, ArtForum, Art21 Magazine, Time, The London Guardian<\/i> and several other newspapers, magazines and books. He has appeared on numerous local and national TV and radio shows including <i>Oprah, The Today Show<\/i>, and <i>CBS This Morning<\/i> speaking about his work and the controversy surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p>His work has been integrated into academic curricula and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreadscott.net\/works\/what-is-the-proper-way-to-display-a-us-flag\/\"><i>What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?<\/i><\/a>\u00a0is discussed in many art history classes and is featured in Henry Sayer\u2019s \u201cfoundations\u201d text <i>A World of Art<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>He works in a range of media including performance, photography, installation, screen-printing and video. \u00a0His works can be hard-edged and poignant. \u00a0Dread plays with fire\u2014metaphorically and sometimes literally\u2014as when he burned $171 on Wall Street and encouraged those with money to burn to add theirs to the pyre.<\/p>\n<p>The link to the website about the project is <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/slave-revolt.com\/\">slave-revolt.com<\/a>\u00a0You can donate by clicking the donate link at the menu item on the top of the site.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6141\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Slave-Rebellion-costumes-VGA.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Slave-Rebellion-costumes-VGA.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Slave-Rebellion-costumes-VGA.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Slave-Rebellion-costumes-VGA.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Slave-Rebellion-costumes-VGA.jpg?resize=696%2C392&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Slave-Rebellion-costumes-VGA.jpg?resize=1068%2C601&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Slave-Rebellion-costumes-VGA.jpg?resize=747%2C420&amp;ssl=1 747w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Slave-Rebellion-costumes-VGA.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6077\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6077\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatFlagVGA1-473x600.jpg?resize=639%2C811&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"639\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatFlagVGA1-473x600.jpg?resize=473%2C600&amp;ssl=1 473w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatFlagVGA1-473x600.jpg?resize=237%2C300&amp;ssl=1 237w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatFlagVGA1-473x600.jpg?resize=331%2C420&amp;ssl=1 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1988; Silver gelatin print, US flag, book, pen, shelf, audience; 80 x 28 x 60 inches What is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag? is an \u201cinstallation for audience participation.\u201d It is from the larger body of work, American Newspeek\u2026Please Feel Free?\u00a0\u00a9Dread Scott.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6076\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6076\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/A-Man-Was-Lynched-shainman-crop-VGA.jpg?resize=640%2C893&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/A-Man-Was-Lynched-shainman-crop-VGA.jpg?resize=734%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 734w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/A-Man-Was-Lynched-shainman-crop-VGA.jpg?resize=215%2C300&amp;ssl=1 215w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/A-Man-Was-Lynched-shainman-crop-VGA.jpg?resize=768%2C1072&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/A-Man-Was-Lynched-shainman-crop-VGA.jpg?resize=696%2C972&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/A-Man-Was-Lynched-shainman-crop-VGA.jpg?resize=301%2C420&amp;ssl=1 301w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/A-Man-Was-Lynched-shainman-crop-VGA.jpg?w=917&amp;ssl=1 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork based on NAACP banner &#8220;A man was lynched yesterday&#8221; Made in reference to the epidemic of police murder on the occasion of the videotaped police murder of #WalterScott; Installed at Jack Shainman gallery July 8 2016.<br \/>&#8220;A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday,&#8221; 2015<br \/>nylon<br \/>84 x 52 1\/2 inches<br \/>\u00a9Dread Scott. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/dreadscott.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listDread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. \u00a0He first received national attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag while he was a student at the School of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-5675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists","8":"tag-new-york-city","9":"tag-us"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/A-Man-Was-Lynched-shainman-crop-VGA.jpg?fit=917%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-1tx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6143,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions\/6143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}