This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Judith Ann Scott was born deaf, mute and with Down Syndrome in 1943 in Cincinnati and was considered uneducable. At age seven, she became a ward of the state and was sent to live in mental institutions.
Many years later, her twin sister won custody of her. Resettled in California, Ms. Scott began an art therapy program at the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, where she developed the large, cocoonlike sculptures of colored yarn wound around little, everyday objects that have become her signature works. Only Ms. Scott knows what objects are at the core of each piece. |
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