Amanta Scott is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, known for her encaustic paintings,[1] interactive sculptures, videos, and workshops exploring the roles and expectations of women and the links between mythology and our world today.
[2] Scott conducts workshops[3] for refugees, newcomers, Indigenous people, troubled youths, women's shelters,[4] students and seniors across North America and Asia.
[23][24] Scott's installation 15 Minutes of Fame featured a prison bed and a standard issue get-out-of-jail orange suitcase filled with personal effects.
[26] Her installation project Parallel Lines was exhibited at Festival International Montréal En Arts, Montreal, Quebec, in 2011; and at Museum of Northern History in Kirkland Lake, Ontario in 2018.
[33] Scott's ancestors include composer Cyril Scott,[34] author Rose Allatini, entrepreneur and philanthropist Moise Allatini,[35] and inventor Marcel Dassault,[36] man of letters Eric Allatini, psychoanalyst and philosopher Elianne Amado Levy-Valensi, composer Darius Milhaud, Comte Moise de Camondo, Arnold Rapoport Edler Von Porada, Rabbi Solomon Judah Lob Rapoport, Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, and Rabbi Aryeh Leib Heller.