ISAAC I. SCOTT RESUME/CV & PORTFOLIO
Multidisciplinary Visual Artist and Community Advocate
qualifications
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education
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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
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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 NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE (NRCAT) Advisory Board Member, 2021-Present |
COMMUNITY BOARD 11 MANHATTAN
Human Services Committee Chairperson, 2019-Present 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
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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.
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
Prison is a Monster, Pioneer Works 2022
COLUMBIA SPECTATOR COLUMNIST
City Morals, 2020-2021
City Morals, 2020-2021
teaching & facilitation experience
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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.
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.
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.
exhibition and curator experience
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VISUAL ART EXHIBITIONS
Includes but not limited to:
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grants and scholarships
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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
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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 |
