Biography

Jan Scott, a founding member of the Television Arts and Sciences, originally was established in New York television. Jan was instrumental in establishing the West Coast TV Academy foundation upon the split between the West Coast Branch with the New York Branch Academy. Jan was an officer and member of the board of directors. She maintained her membership and activity in television, establishing a Chair committee for the Academy's building and Sculpture forecourt development on the Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood, EMMY Building - Executive offices and theatre. Jan and Richard (Dick) Stiles chaired the Sculpture committee, selecting sculptors commissioned to execute honoree television personalities featured in the Headquarters forecourt and interior spaces. Jan and Romaine Johnston supervised the forecourt "EMMY Statue Fountain" and the installation of the art work-sculpture fountain in North Hollywood. The sculpture was sculpted and finished in Utah, where both Jan and Romaine supervised and directed the finished work in the foundry. Jan was a member of the New York Scenic Artist and Designers Union #829. Transferring to the West Coast, Jan became the second woman to join the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Art Directors Guild, IATSE #876, (Renamed ART Directors Guild IATSE #800). The first New York woman television designer to join #876 was Jan's friend Mary Dodson Weaver, who had rotated from New York and Burbank, the Art Director with the Johnny Carson Tonight Show, in the late 60's. Jan served on the Art Directors Board of Directors, as well as serving two terms as the Union's President.

Noted art director who worked mostly in television. She received twenty-nine Emmy Award nominations, winning the award a total of eleven times.