Amy Scott

Lecturer
Amy Scott

Dr. Amy Scott is the Chief Curator and Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross Curator of Visual Arts at the Autry Museum. She has been working as an art historian and a curator since 1993, when she received her B.A. in Art History at the University of Kansas. She received her M.A. as a curatorial assistant at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, continued her curatorial work at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, and in 2000 assumed the role of Curator of Visual Arts at the Autry. In 2013, she earned her Ph.D. in Visual Studies at the University of California Irvine.

Throughout, she has published and contributed to books and catalogues on the art of the American West including Yosemite: Art of an American Icon (2006), Paul Pletka Imagined Wests (2017), La Raza (on Chicano photography) and a forthcoming guide to the Autry’s art collections, Art of the West.

Share This

You May Also Like

 
  • Lecture
    Will Wilson & Amy Scott: Time, Place, and Race

    Will Wilson & Amy Scott: Time, Place, and Race

    Diné artist Will Wilson and Autry Museum Chief Curator Amy Scott’s dialogue covered a broad range of subjects, including the ways indigenous people are taking back the representation of their own cultures through art and photography.
  • Exhibit
    Not An Ostrich: And Other Images From America’s Library

    Not An Ostrich: And Other Images From America’s Library

    Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library is the result of celebrated American photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker’s excavation of nearly 500 images—out of a collection of over 14 million—permanently housed at the Library of Congress.

  • Photographer
    Camilo José Vergara

    Camilo José Vergara

    Camilo José Vergara is drawn to the urban fabric of America’s inner cities—to the buildings that compose them and the life and culture embedded in its structures and streets.

  • Photographer
    Carol M. Highsmith

    Carol M. Highsmith

    For more than 30 years, visual documentarian Carol M. Highsmith has captured life, people, and places across America on behalf of the Library of Congress, where her archive has reached 50,000 images (and growing).

  • Photographer
    Donna Ferrato

    Donna Ferrato

    Donna Ferrato is a documentary photographer, whose gifts for exploration, illumination, and documentation—coupled with a commitment to revealing the darker sides of humanity—have made her a giant in the medium.

  • Photographer
    Sharon Farmer

    Sharon Farmer

    Sharon Farmer has been a professional photojournalist and exhibition photographer for more than 40 years, shooting news stories, political campaigns, cultural events, conferences, and portraits.

  • Photographer
    Will Wilson

    Will Wilson

    Will Wilson’s art projects center around the continuation and transformation of customary indigenous cultural practice.

  • Photographer
    Danny Lyon

    Danny Lyon

    Danny Lyon was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York. He is an American photographer and filmmaker. All of Lyon’s publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism.