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Dr. Jones' new book South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s is almost here, and to celebrate we are providing a first look. In this excerpt, South of Pico establishes the roles that the African American migration of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, opportunities, segregation and socioeconomic climate play in the development of the African American art scene in postwar Los Angeles.
Get your first look here.
In her latest portrait series for Vogue Magazine, the phenomenal Lorna Simpson featured a select group of her female contemporaries in the arts, including Dr. Jones. Click here to see more.
Photo courtesy of Sarah Wishloff '19
Dr. Jones returned to speak at her alma mater recently, and "The Amherst Student" was there to cover it. See what they had to say here.
Amherst featured Dr. Jones and her recent campus appearance on their website. See the highlights here. You can also view her video interview with Amherst professor Nicola Courtright reflecting on her time as a student and her career as a curator and art historian below.
Rand Richards Cooper of Amherst Magazine spent an afternoon with Dr. Jones taking in the art at The Studio Museum in Harlem followed by a late lunch at the renowned Red Rooster. Read more about their afternoon in New York here.
Dr. Jones sits down with Stephania Davis of The Crisis Magazine to talk about her journey in the art world and what it was like receiving the call from the MacArthur Foundation. Click here to see what she has to say.
"The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas" showcases and brings together the path-breaking approaches to the study of the multifaceted and multilocated arts and architecture produced by peoples of African descent worldwide. Featuring original research, new methods, and the latest developments in these areas of inquiry, this series seeks to foster new conversations that include scholars, curators, and artists. To this end, it invites projects that expand our knowledge of the arts of peoples of African descent in a larger global context and broader artistic worlds, it welcomes work that brings to the fore areas that have been previously overlooked, and it encourages pursuits that rethink the visual arts of these transnational worlds, the contexts in which they exist, and the institutions that attend to them.
We welcome your projects. Information on how to submit materials to Duke University Press can be found here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Authors/manuscript.php
artnet News talks about the College Art Association's 2017 Annual Conference, and Dr. Kellie Jones's participation in the discussion on art and social movements. Read more here.
Dr. Kellie Jones is featured in "16 Bars," a recurring column at MusiQology highlighting diverse voices across social media and aggregating them in a kind of thematic digital verse. Click here to read more.
New York Magazine talked with Dr. Kellie Jones for their "Taking Care of Business" series. Click here to see what career advice she gives.
Click here to read NewsOne's profiles of Dr. Jones and all of 2016's African-American winners of the MacArthur Grant.
Columbia University's Columbia Daily Spectator celebrates the school's 2016 MacArthur Fellows. Click here to see what they had to say.
Dr. Jones sits down with her alma mater's newspaper to chat about collaboration and creating her own path. Read more here.
Soldiers and Students, 1962, Jacob Lawrence (The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation)
JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK
Barkley L. Hendricks’s “Lawdy Mama.”
Mark Feeney of the Boston Globe reviews Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties. See what he says here.