Carol Scott

Carol Scott is Professor Emeritus of Art at University of Holy Cross, New Orleans. She is an accomplished art and poet. Carol has two books of poetry and art, Rhapsody and Redolence: The Crystal Decade (Cascade, April 2024); Luminous Mysteries: The Passion of the Last Words (Kalos, 2025). In each book she provides 25 pieces of original art. Her ability to cross between two different creative mediums, art and poetry, and to fuse into a dynamic expression of wonder, nakedness, the erotic and the sacred have been recognized and praised so much so that she has been nominated for the prestigious Griffin Prize in poetry! Danny Fitzpatrick Editor of Joie De Vivre Quarterly Journal of Arts, Culture, and Letters & NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort Member writes: “To encounter Carol Scott’s art is to know that strange exhilaration of stepping through an overlooked door on a familiar street and into a world vertiginous, enchanting, alive to the ceaseless throb of wonder. By turns jocund, searing, and prayerful, the work evinces a contemplative vision shot through with all the colors and shades of feeling known to the eyes of childhood. Playfully fluent in the tradition, it nonetheless eludes all facile comparison. Like all great art, it somehow leaves us less certain of our way of being in the world, even as it gives us back a part of ourselves we hadn’t yet known to look for.” Carol’s art and poetry have been featured in the following journals and podcasts: Joie de Vivre; Humanum; Cultural Debris and New Oxford Review. Carol is an invited special artist for the innovative and pioneering arts-focus of The Building with a retrospective of 70 pieces of her artwork. She is a permanent gallery artist at Gallery 600 Julia with an upcoming solo show “Gallopers” opening November 2024. This Fall she will have a four-month solo show at St. Francis College, New York City with lectures on her art and poetry. Carol has created over 600 original pieces of art. The City of New Orleans selected her work for their permanent collection, and she has served as the Vice President of the Women’s Caucus for Art. Matthew Levering, Editor, Word on Fire, writes in his dust jacket endorsement: “When I saw Carol Scott’s paintings, my first impression was their wondrous intensity—bursting with joy! The colors are shockingly bold, and the things in the painting feel like they are in motion. For me, her art expresses both movement and stillness, almost shouting with gladness. Because of its subject matter—I am thinking here specifically of ‘Luminous Mysteries,’ but all her works have this element—her art shimmers with profundity, as Scott seems to have penetrated into the deepest energy and passion that pours forth from Christ’s cross. I can’t think of other artists whose works pulsate with the joy and energy of being, and with the ‘pouring forth’ or shouting with joy of sheer grace, that I find in Scott’s best paintings, of which there are many.”