Ramble: Walking and Visual Journaling

Speaker: 
Mary Jones
 
15 Feb 2017
 
6:00 PM
 
Kocimski Auditorium, 0101 College of Design

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Mary Jones is a mixed-media artist, illustrator, and printmaker who explores the creative potential of physically engaging with one's environment. She will discuss how walking well-trodden paths is like remembering in layers, and how this process of remembering is similar to the layers in her prints. Jones’s research into areas of flânerie - aimless idle behavior - and mapping and topological exploration will appeal not only to artists but to students of philosophy, writing, and the natural sciences. Mary Jones is currently a professor of art and design at Grandview University in Des Moines. Following the presentation, audience members are invited to view and discuss a selection of the artist's prints.

Mary Jones will lead a demonstration and workshop focused on photo-based intaglio printmaking February 15-17. More information, including specific times and details, is available below or on the [url=http://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/42161]Lectures Program[/url] website.

[b]Demonstration & Workshop: Photo-based Intaglio Printmaking[/b] Room 0011, College of Design [b]Wednesday, Feb 15, 9:00am-noon & 1:00-3:30pm[/b] Demonstration: Photoshop document preparation, exposure and development of plates and printing [b]Thursday, Feb 16, 9:00am-noon & 1:30-5:00pm[/b] Demonstration: Use of InkAID film to transfer ink-jet imagery to prints Printmaking drop-in workshop - Assistance provided for those unable to attend prior demonstrations. [b]Friday, Feb 17, 9:00am-noon[/b] Printmaking drop-in workshop - Assistance provided for those unable to attend prior demonstrations. [i]All demonstrations and workshops are free and open to the public. Registration is not required, but space is limited. If you are interested in participating of have questions, contact AJ Zandt, ajzandt@iastate.edu.[/i] [b]More about Mary Jones[/b] At Grand View University, Jones teaches a variety of courses including graphic design, printmaking, bookbinding and typography. She works with students in both fine art and graphic design and enjoys “helping them make connections between the two areas.” Prior to teaching, Jones was a designer and illustrator with work published by the Chicago Tribune and the Philadelphia Enquirer, among others. As a printmaker Jones constructs images of city streets out of mixed media like photos, drawings, words and found images. She also makes larger installed works and artists’ books. Her work is in the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Women in the Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia as well as the State Museum of Illinois in both Chicago and Springfield. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation and at Anchor Graphics in Chicago. She recently has pursued collaborative projects with other printmakers and book artists.