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ISAAC I. SCOTT RESUME/CV & PORTFOLIO

Multidisciplinary Visual Artist and Community Advocate

qualifications

  • ​​FINE ART & EXHIBITION CURATION
  • GRAPHIC DESIGN 
  • WEBSITE LAYOUT DESIGN
  • VIDEO AND EDITING 
  • CONTENT CREATION
  • INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP DISCUSSION FACILITATION
  • MENTORING PROFICIENCY​
  • RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
  • DESIGNING RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • STRATEGIC PLANNING & COORDINATION FOR PROJECTS AND PUBLIC EVENTS
  • ​CREATIVE WRITING
  • GRANTWRITIG & FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNING 

education

THE PHILANTHROPY LAB
Grant Writing Board Program, Jan 2023 -Present


COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES 

Bachelors of Arts in Visual Arts, May 2023

UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Faith Collaborative Leadership Training, Fall 2019

MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK (MNN)
Certificate of Completion in Basic Studio Production; Field Production, July 2018
CENTER FOR JUSTICE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Beyond the Bars Fellowship in Social Justice Leadership, 2015-2016

NYS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Residential Electricity; Floor Covering; Masonry, June 2007-July 2011

TAYLOR BUSINESS INSTITUTE 
Associates in Applied Sciences in Networking Technology, GPA 3.49, September 2002-June 2004

advocacy-work experience

THE CONFINED ARTS 
Founder and Executive Director, 2014-Present


ANOTHER CHOICE YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH
at Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church, NYC

Resident Artist & Community Liaison Minister, 2021-Present
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NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN
​AGAINST TORTURE (NRCAT) 

Advisory Board Member, 2021-Present 
COMMUNITY BOARD 11 MANHATTAN
Human Services Committee Chairperson, 2019-Present
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CENTER FOR JUSTICE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Social Relations Lab Technician and Resident Visual Artist, 2015-2022

GOD'S TOUCH HEALING MINISTRY
Associate Pastor, 2018-2021

NYS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Inmate Grievance Representative, 2009-2013

Participatory action research experience

www.theconfinedarts.org/research-and-advocacy.html
SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF PRISON STUDY, 2018-2019
Because people in prison are isolated from free society, are geographically distanced and may be emotionally distanced from family as a result of their incarceration, considering peer relationships that are formed within prison is a critical part of understanding what social support means for people in prison. 
LANGUAGE OF DEHUMANIZATION PROJECT, 2016-2019
This project aims to produce and exhibit evidence about the detrimental effects of dehumanizing language and misrepresentations of people in jail/prison in three different contexts: public opinion, judicial context, and prison settings. Label Impact Study Television Research (De)humanizing Language in the Courtroom.
STRATEGIC ARTS ENGAGEMENT IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, 2020-PRESENT
Across various art-center project nationally TCA is measuring The role of public arts and strategic arts engagement in popular culture and in personal settings to change perception, build relationships, and foster action. This research is being conducted, in part, to support the Arts Justice Safety Coalition's 2022-23 policy goal which is to advance alternative to incarceration (ATI) possibilities by positioning the arts as an essential tool in prevention, pre-trial, supervised release, and post-conviction sentencing options. This project will promote trauma-informed arts practices to intervene and center the humanity of individuals who are system-impacted will open pathways towards, financial sustainability, public safety, healing and inspired living.

publications

PIONEER WORKS
Prison is a Monster, Pioneer Works 2022
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COLUMBIA SPECTATOR COLUMNIST
City Morals, 2020-2021
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teaching & facilitation experience

THE CONFINED ARTS
Arts Justice Safety coalition Professional Development Workshop Facilitator, 2022- Present

ANOTHER CHOICE YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH
Teaching Artist Summer 2022-Present


BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION 
Group Facilitator And Thought Partner, 2019-2022

CENTER FOR COURT INNOVATION
Teaching Artist, Film and Documentary Program, Summer 2020

INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION IN PROSECUTION
Teaching Artist, Virtual Drawing Workshop 2020
RISING GROUND
Teaching Artist, Drawing Workshop at Rikers Island (Rose M. Singer Center) Fall 2019

PROJECT ART AT NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Teaching artist with ages 6-16, 2016-2017

CASES (Manhattan & Bronx)
Teaching artist and Facilitator using strategic arts engagement as an alternative to incarceration,  2016-2017

JUSTICE IN EDUCATION INITIATIVE
Graphic design teaching artist at at Rikers Island (Rose M. Singer Center) and with JUST Arts program 2015-2016

Professional artist statement

When it comes to creating more informed and culturally inclusive policies, the role of the arts in the social justice landscape cannot continue to be minimized to supplemental involvements, which only feature artistic activities as a secondary option for social engagement. Instead, art should be in every change agent’s toolbox as a means to change perception, build relationships, and foster action. I’ve taken an interdisciplinary approach to using advocacy combined with painting, collage, digital arts and the performing arts to highlight the inequities of the incarceration experience and the need for healing, redemption, and restoration.
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My artwork is narrative-based and each project tells its own unique story. My process for artmaking and curating storytelling projects includes utilizing a mixed media methodology to criminal justice advocacy by organizing public art projects, online art exhibitions, poetry performances, and storytelling projects to interrogate and bring about awareness around the intersecting pathways to incarceration. I want my art to function in the world as not only individualized testimony, but also as an interconnected experience. 
CLICK HERE TO VIEW MY ARTIST PORTFOLIO

exhibition and curator experience

VISUAL ART EXHIBITIONS 
Includes but not limited to:
  • Apollo Theater 
  • Columbia University 
  • Stella Adler Gallery 
  • Raw Space 
  • Andrew Freeman Home 
  • Gavin Brown's Gallery
  • SHWICK Gallery ​
  • Mt. Zion A.M.E Church
  • Metropolitan Community Church 
  • The Poet's Den 
  • Uparty
  • Hunter East Harlem Gallery
  • Community Church of New York 
  • Delaware County Community College 
  • Vassar College 
  • St. Francis College
  • Trinity College

grants and scholarships

SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Rene Plessner Scholarship, Fall 2022

FORD FOUNDATION, GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD COMMITTEE
Project Grant: Strategic Arts Engagement Initiative, 2022-2023

OPEN SOCIETIES FOUNDATIONS, DRUG POLICY PROGRAM
Project Grant: Claiming the Visual Narrative, 2021-2023
EUGENE M LANG FOUNDATION
General Support Grant: The Confined Arts, - 2021

J&E BERKLEY FOUNDATION 
General support Grant: The Confined Arts - 2020

achievements and awards

The Philanthropy Lab Course
Selected in 2022 as a top student representatives from Columbia University to convene in Dallas at an annual Ambassadors Conference and participated in a grant making exercise which awarded 50K to Children of Promise on student representative's behalf, 2022

Columbia University School of General Studies
5x Change Agent Award Recipient , 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

God's Touch Healing Ministry
Certificate of Ordination and Marriage Officiant, May 2018

Just Leadership USA
Breakthrough Action Leadership Training for Emerging Leaders Certificate of Completion, July 2017

Columbia Business School
Start Your Own Business: Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship workshop Certificate of successful participation, May 2017
StoryCorps,
Certificate of Recognition February 2017
02/07/2017 Interview archived at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture as well as the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and is an official StoryCorp Archive. Use Interview ID dda002514 to locate and listen to interview in StoryCorp archive at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

Recognize the Real Award Ceremony
Senator Bill Perkins Certificate of Achievement & City Council Citation, August 2015

Justice in Education Initiative at Columbia University
Justice-in-Education Scholars Program Certificate of Completion, July 2015

Virgil Grissom Middle School
Certificate of Appreciation-Career Day, May 2015

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ADVOCACY PROJECTS

Beyond the Bars: Seeding Justice

​Open Call for Clemency


Viral Monologues

From the Inside Out

​132 Chicago Calls

Claiming the Justice Narrative
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Newark Public Arts
ART  INITIATIVES
Strategic Arts & Education Initiative 

​Arts Justice Safety Coalition 
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​Claiming the Visual Narrative
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End Gun Violence

RESEARCH projects

The Power of Language to Incarcerate

The Social Dynamic of Incarceration

Community Enhancement Through the Arts

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    • Arts Justice Safety Coalition
    • OUR TEAM OF VOLUNTEERS
    • FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
    • ANNUAL REPORTS
    • CONTACT US
  • WHAT WE DO
    • Exhibitions
    • Storytelling Projects
    • Arts education
    • Public Arts
  • HOW WE WORK
    • STRATEGIC ARTS ENGAGEMENT
    • RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY
    • Tools and Resources
  • DONATE AND SUPPORT
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