JAMES SCRUGGS.
an award winning artist who creates large-scale, topical, theatrical productions, live and virtual, often interactive.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
James Scruggs is an artist who creates large-scale, topical, theatrical productions, live and virtual. He’s the recipient of multiple grants and awards. He was recently awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship Grant. He was the first playwright commissioned by The Perelman Arts Center, NYC; he wrote The American Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was awarded a MAP Grant. He was also recently awarded an NPN Creation Fund Grant to create OFF THE RECORD: Acts of Restorative Justice which was commissioned by Arts Emerson in Boston, The Center at West Park in NYC and Art2Action in Tampa, Florida. This piece will be presented at HERE Arts Center in Spring of 2026. His 3/Fifths SupremacyLand (2017) was a fully immersive, interactive ethno-theme park, exploring racism, for which he was awarded a MAP Grant and a 2016 Creative Capital Grant. James Scruggs has a BFA in film from School of Visual Arts.
ARTIST INTERVIEW.
Stay tuned for the interview, to be released on March 9.
The hope was to foster real empathy... and you really can't be that empathetic if you don't know what's going on with other people. That's the kind of work I'm really interested in.
James Scruggs works to make the audience
FEEL IMPLICATED
AT EVERY MOMENT.
-TALKIN' BROADWAY
GALLERY.
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CREDITS: Trapped in a Traveling Minstrel Show (2017), Boston Center for the Arts, photo: David Marshall; Headshot, photo: Ben Esner; (RUS)H, HERE Arts Center, photo courtesy of the artist; 3/Fifths, photo: Skye Morse-Hodgson; Disposable Men, HERE Arts Center, courtesy of the artist.