Elizabeth Coldwell Talford Scott shimmered into a cool breeze at the age of ninety-five years. Hailing from chester, South Carolina, elizabeth, with her large family, sharecropped vegetable and cotton on the pantation where her grandparents labored as slaves, Elizabeth made a new life in Baltimore in 1940. After meeting Charles Scott, Jr. and then bearing Lil' Joyce, her future was set as a mother and eventually, full-time textile artist of national acclaim. Mother Scott held numerous positions, from housekeeper to chef to nanny of many beloved children, but her greatest achievement was her love and nuturing of Joyce, her only child. They forged a true love and friendship throughout life, supporting each other's endeavors from pie-eating and soul-singing to creating and exhibiting their artwork. Elizabeth was a representative of the early twentieth century. This hardworking African American mother who was born shortly after the invention of the airplane, eventually became a passenger... amazing. Yet, she always use a single needle and thread as her magic wand, creating stellar artworks that delighted many. Her quilts and wall hangings were exhibited at many venues, lacally, as well as Florida A&M University, New York's Studio Museum of Harlem, The Museum of American Folk Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Elizabeth's exhibts culminated with her retrospective in 1998, entitled "Eyewinker, Tumbleturds and Candlebugs," at the Manyland Instiute College of Art. Eyewinkers traveled for two years and was exhibited at the Smithsonian Instiution and the New England Quit Museum. She enjoyed lecturing and teaching workshops with Joyce, including the Maryland State Art's Council's Artist in Education Program, the Smithsonian Institution's Folk Life Festival in Washington, D.C., the Penland School of Craft in Penland, NC and University of colorado, boulder. In 1987, she received the prestigious Women's Cacus for Honor Award for OUtstanding Achievements in the Visual Arts. Elizabeth is survived by her daughter, Joyce J. Scott and Lois Cash Scott and Coy Scott, Joyce's siblings who shared Charlie Scott Jr. as their father, but through love are Momma Lizzie's babies "by proxy." As the last survior of fourteen siblings, she leaves behind a multitude of Caldwell nieces, nephews and cousins, as well as a vast extended family. Many remember her mischievous grin, collards from the garden, sweet potato pie, and homemade wine. Her enormous heart, with its sharing nature, foretold the diverse jumble of ethnic-human relations we cvall family today. She will be greatly missed and fondly recalled.