Dread Scott is a founding member of the Artists Network of Refuse & Resist! and, in September 1999, he joined with other artists to mount a visual arts exhibition at 15 galleries in New York City for Mumia 911, the national day of art to stop the execution.
His recent work includes Danger, Police in Area, a poster that has become so popular among the people in Los Angeles that knock-off versions of it have appeared on T-shirts hawked by street vendors in downtown L.A. His installation Historic Corrections was one of the major pieces in the Capital Art on the Culture of Punishment show, dedicated to Mumia Abu-Jamal, at the Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica this past winter. He is currently working on a piece called Lockdown which uses a combination of photographs and interviews to bring out the humanity of the young generation criminalized and thrown behind bars.
