Dread Scott

Not to be confused with Dred Scott, the 19th-century American slave.
Dread Scott
Photographic Portrait of Dread Scott
Dread Scott in 2010
Born1965 (age 58–59)
Chicago, Illinois
Notable workWhat Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag
Awards2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2020 United States Artists Fellowship
Websitewww.dreadscott.net

Scott Tyler (born 1965), known professionally as Dread Scott, is an American artist whose works, often participatory in nature, focus on the experience of African Americans in the contemporary United States. His first major work, What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag (1989),[1] was at the center of a controversy regarding whether his piece resulted in desecration of the American flag. Scott would later be one of the defendants in United States v. Eichman, a Supreme Court case in which it was eventually decided that federal laws banning flag desecration were unconstitutional.

  1. ^ Cohen, Alina (2018-07-25). "It's Legal to Burn the American Flag. This Artist Helped Make It A Form of Free Speech". Artsy. Retrieved 2020-02-14.