The Paul R. Jones Museum presents Inspired, a collaboration between Woodland Forrest Elementary School and the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, open now through February 22, 2019. An opening reception is February 1st from 5:30-7:30 p.m. There will be a music performance at 6:30 p.m. The Paul R. Jones Museum is located at 2308 Sixth Street, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401 Hours are Monday–Friday 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and First Friday of the month Noon until 8 p.m. For more information about all their programs and exhibitions, call 205-345-3038 or go to their website: https://paulrjones.museums.ua.edu/hours-location-admission/. A Facebook event is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/406982419843026/. Image credit: Ming Smith, Step One: David and Mingus, 1989, gelatin silver print, courtesy the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at The University of Alabama, PJ2008.0264.
Lucy Curzon Introduces Schoolchildren to Art in the Paul Jones Collection
In October 2014, Lucy Curzon, director of education and outreach for the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at UA, spoke to students from Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary and Westlawn Middle schools at the Paul Jones Gallery in Tuscaloosa as part of the gallery’s inaugural K-12 Fellows program. After a ribbon-cutting by College of Arts and Sciences Dean Robert Olin, Curzon talked to students about how to look at and think about the art in the gallery before they went back to their classrooms to make their own art. “The University of Alabama has reached an important milestone in our stewardship of the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art as we welcome students from Martin Luther King Jr. and Westlawn schools to the gallery,” said Dean Olin. “This is the first of what we hope will be many field trip visits by students from kindergarten to high school to view works from the collection. It was Paul Jones’s wish, and ours, that the collection be shared with students to educate and inspire them through the works and contributions of the African-American artists represented in it,” Olin said. Read more about the K-12 Fellows program here. More photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/uaart/sets/72157648130194349 [Loupe Spring 2015]