Samantha Best - Publications

Joyce J. Scott: Walk A Mile In My Dreams

Edited by Catharina Manchanda and Cecilia Wichmann

Published by Seattle Art Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art (2024)

Distributed by Yale University Press

Publication Manager: Samantha Best

An insightful retrospective of the genre-defying contemporary artist and MacArthur Fellow Joyce J. Scott, showcasing contributions from an extraordinary group of artists and scholars including Tiffany E. Barber, Angela N. Carroll, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sonya Clark, Oletha DeVane, Henry John Drewal, Jeffrey Gibson, Ashley Minner Jones, Leslie King Hammond, Kay Lawal-Muhammad, Deyane Moses, Malcolm Peacock, William C Rhodes, Joyce J. Scott and Lowery Stokes Sims.

Calder in Motion: The Shirley Family Collection

Edited by Jose Diaz

Published by Seattle Art Museum (2023)

Distributed by University of Washington Press

Publication Manager: Samantha Best

This richly illustrated publication accompanies SAM’s inaugural exhibition of Calder works from the The Shirley Family Collection, demonstrating Calder’s unique vision, which has had a profound influence on contemporary culture. It features a curatorial foreword by José Carlos Diaz; short essays by Jon Shirley tracing his evolution as a passionate and informed collector of Calder’s work and discussing the importance of scale in the artist’s sculpture, which ranges from the miniature to the monumental; and an essay by art historian Elizabeth Hutton Turner that expands on the artist’s life and his extraordinary impact on twentieth-century art. Short contributions by Alexander S. C. Rower, president of the Calder Foundation and grandson of the artist, focus on ten of the collection’s artworks, situating them within Calder’s oeuvre.

Dialogues: Irena Haiduk + Martine Syms

Edited by Jose Diaz

Published by Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonealth University (2019)

Publication Manager: Amber Esseiva

Curatorial Production Manager: Samantha Best

Publication to accompany Dialogues: Irena Haiduk + Martine Syms exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU. In the inaugural exhibition of the ICA’s annual Dialogues series, artists Irena Haiduk (b. 1982, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) and Martine Syms (b. 1988, Los Angeles, USA) produce new projects for the ICA, titled respectively Tableau Économique and Shame Space. These projects extend Haiduk’s and Syms’ investment in economy and entrepreneurship through ICA-commissioned installations that invite active participation from audience members.