BIO
You do not really decide to be an artist…it is in you from birth. We either respond to who we are created to be or we spend our lives suppressing it. Artist Gail Jones spent her childhood years around artistic expression.
As explained by Jones; “Being exposed to art and creative process was just something that I thought everyone was raised with.”
Whether it was fiber art, woodworking or her grandfather’s (Henry Bozeman Jones) paintings, Jones was surrounded by creative influences inside of her family that naturally led her to respond to the artist inside of her.
She recalls her early childhood “We would go to my grandfather’s house for Sunday dinner. As I walked in, there was a wonderful mixture of pipe tobacco, oil paint and dinner cooking in the kitchen and I would sit on my grandfather’s lap as he explained his latest work to me.”
Born in Germantown, Pa. and raised nearby in Ambler, her artistic future was further shaped being enrolled at an early age in art classes at Heritage House of North Philadelphia, an artist-based community center which her grandfather was involved in establishing. Later, Jones spent her school years using all her class electives in creative environments, metal, woodworking and sewing.
After the birth of her first son, Jones enrolled at Montgomery County Community College, focusing on Ceramic Arts. She fell in love with the hand-building process and another part of Gail Jones, the Artist was activated. This was the last of any formal training as she launched into the following decades developing as an independently trained artist.
Jones spent much of her early years as a batik artist, creating a wearable art line from the shapes and designs that flowed out of her. She soon created flat pieces which began to display in shows and galleries.
Over twenty years ago, Jones returned to working with ceramics, opening her first studio inside a rented space in a tiny little village named Forksville, in north-central Pennsylvania until moving to an equally obscure location in Muncy Valley, Pa, where she resides.
There, Jones established a working studio where her own creativity seemingly never ceases while her pottery classes draw in other women from the community that love that same creative energy.
Her mosaic works now incorporate her own hand-made tessera which serves to enhance the creative expression
You do not really decide to be an artist…it is in you from birth. We either respond to who we are created to be or we spend our lives suppressing it. Artist Gail Jones spent her childhood years around artistic expression.
As explained by Jones; “Being exposed to art and creative process was just something that I thought everyone was raised with.”
Whether it was fiber art, woodworking or her grandfather’s (Henry Bozeman Jones) paintings, Jones was surrounded by creative influences inside of her family that naturally led her to respond to the artist inside of her.
She recalls her early childhood “We would go to my grandfather’s house for Sunday dinner. As I walked in, there was a wonderful mixture of pipe tobacco, oil paint and dinner cooking in the kitchen and I would sit on my grandfather’s lap as he explained his latest work to me.”
Born in Germantown, Pa. and raised nearby in Ambler, her artistic future was further shaped being enrolled at an early age in art classes at Heritage House of North Philadelphia, an artist-based community center which her grandfather was involved in establishing. Later, Jones spent her school years using all her class electives in creative environments, metal, woodworking and sewing.
After the birth of her first son, Jones enrolled at Montgomery County Community College, focusing on Ceramic Arts. She fell in love with the hand-building process and another part of Gail Jones, the Artist was activated. This was the last of any formal training as she launched into the following decades developing as an independently trained artist.
Jones spent much of her early years as a batik artist, creating a wearable art line from the shapes and designs that flowed out of her. She soon created flat pieces which began to display in shows and galleries.
Over twenty years ago, Jones returned to working with ceramics, opening her first studio inside a rented space in a tiny little village named Forksville, in north-central Pennsylvania until moving to an equally obscure location in Muncy Valley, Pa, where she resides.
There, Jones established a working studio where her own creativity seemingly never ceases while her pottery classes draw in other women from the community that love that same creative energy.
Her mosaic works now incorporate her own hand-made tessera which serves to enhance the creative expression
ARTIST RESUME / GAIL H. JONES
1057 Edkin Hill Rd. Muncy Valley, PA 17758
570-337-8928 / firewoman139@gmail.com
Current – Maintains Working Studio, Art Class Instructor. Muncy Valley, PA
Current: Rostered Teaching Artist for Pennsylvania Arts Council
Contact: PA Arts Counsel Renea Chamberlain (Northern Tier Partners for the Arts) 570-268-2787 ntpaie@bcrac.org
11-20 to 01-21 Counter Stage Arts in Health Training
Contact: Kerry Royer kroyer@pennstatehealth.PSUEDU
02-20 to 10-20 Asphalt Mosaic Project / Danville Primary School
Contact: Jessica Noel and Angela Langford 570-271-3268
02-20 Art Educator Trauma Informed Training
Contact: Executive Director, Beth Feldman-Brandt, Stoken Rush Bartol Foundation, Philadelphia, PA 257-519-5311 BFBrandt@bartol.org
08-19 Mosaic Residency Tunkhannock Public Library
Contact: Angela Hunsinger 570-836-1677 www.tunkhannocklibrary.org
08-19 Mosaic Residency Berwick Senior Center
Contact: Jan Banko 570-759-8529 bcenter@cmaaa15.org
05-16 Established Hand-Building Pottery Studio in Karen, Kenya, Africa. (Training and equipping women with the slab techniques and awakening their creative selves. Trained and equipped a Resident Artist in all aspects of functional Pottery Studio.)
Contact: Pat Petronio, Director of Asante Yesu Missions Agency pattyauria@gmail.com
05-15 Mosaic Residency Salladasburg, Pa. Elementary School. (6’ by 10’ Tile- Mosaic.)
Contact: Lisa Eiswerth (Salladasburg, Pa. Elementary School) LEiswerth@jsasd.org
2013 Mosaic Stained Glass Workshop. Eagles Mere Museum.
Contact: 570-525-3155
01-12 Mosaic Residency Westfield Elementary. (9’ by 11’ Tile Mosaic.)
Contact: Westfield Elementary School 814-367-2712
12-11 Red Rock Job Corps / Lopez PA. Instructor, Stoneware Hand Building Workshop
Contact: 570-477-2221
2-11 Canton Head Start Teacher Artist Partnership. (T.A.P.) Teacher/Instructor
PA Arts Counsel Renea Chamberlain (Northern Tier Partners for the Arts) 570-268-2787 ntpaie@bcrac.org
2-10 Eternity Gospel Academy, Karen, Kenya, Africa / Teacher-Training, Visual Arts Teacher/Instructor
Contact: Pat Petronio, Director of Asante Yesu Missions Agency pattyauria@gmail.com
www.gailjonesart.com
1057 Edkin Hill Rd. Muncy Valley, PA 17758
570-337-8928 / firewoman139@gmail.com
Current – Maintains Working Studio, Art Class Instructor. Muncy Valley, PA
Current: Rostered Teaching Artist for Pennsylvania Arts Council
Contact: PA Arts Counsel Renea Chamberlain (Northern Tier Partners for the Arts) 570-268-2787 ntpaie@bcrac.org
11-20 to 01-21 Counter Stage Arts in Health Training
Contact: Kerry Royer kroyer@pennstatehealth.PSUEDU
02-20 to 10-20 Asphalt Mosaic Project / Danville Primary School
Contact: Jessica Noel and Angela Langford 570-271-3268
02-20 Art Educator Trauma Informed Training
Contact: Executive Director, Beth Feldman-Brandt, Stoken Rush Bartol Foundation, Philadelphia, PA 257-519-5311 BFBrandt@bartol.org
08-19 Mosaic Residency Tunkhannock Public Library
Contact: Angela Hunsinger 570-836-1677 www.tunkhannocklibrary.org
08-19 Mosaic Residency Berwick Senior Center
Contact: Jan Banko 570-759-8529 bcenter@cmaaa15.org
05-16 Established Hand-Building Pottery Studio in Karen, Kenya, Africa. (Training and equipping women with the slab techniques and awakening their creative selves. Trained and equipped a Resident Artist in all aspects of functional Pottery Studio.)
Contact: Pat Petronio, Director of Asante Yesu Missions Agency pattyauria@gmail.com
05-15 Mosaic Residency Salladasburg, Pa. Elementary School. (6’ by 10’ Tile- Mosaic.)
Contact: Lisa Eiswerth (Salladasburg, Pa. Elementary School) LEiswerth@jsasd.org
2013 Mosaic Stained Glass Workshop. Eagles Mere Museum.
Contact: 570-525-3155
01-12 Mosaic Residency Westfield Elementary. (9’ by 11’ Tile Mosaic.)
Contact: Westfield Elementary School 814-367-2712
12-11 Red Rock Job Corps / Lopez PA. Instructor, Stoneware Hand Building Workshop
Contact: 570-477-2221
2-11 Canton Head Start Teacher Artist Partnership. (T.A.P.) Teacher/Instructor
PA Arts Counsel Renea Chamberlain (Northern Tier Partners for the Arts) 570-268-2787 ntpaie@bcrac.org
2-10 Eternity Gospel Academy, Karen, Kenya, Africa / Teacher-Training, Visual Arts Teacher/Instructor
Contact: Pat Petronio, Director of Asante Yesu Missions Agency pattyauria@gmail.com
www.gailjonesart.com