Mary Sheldon Scott: Paintings

For over twenty years, Scott has woven deep ties with Cornish College of the Arts — having worked as executive assistant to three Presidents, taught as Visiting Faculty, and served as Interim Chair of the Dance Department — but her paintings may be a revelation to many. Her dance and choreographic work are likely more familiar to the Seattle arts community, along with her collaborative performance work with composer (and husband) Jarrad Powell.

For more than five decades, while her public profession revolved around dance and performance, she has also forged a visual practice, making paintings and drawings in various studios, in a garden at her mother’s East Coast home, even here at Cornish in a rented studio in the Beebe Building.