Ashley Jones

Ashley A. Jones is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator from Duquesne, Pennsylvania. Jones uses a mixture of drawing, painting, and collage art to tell a story and give a visual on the complex narrative of what it’s like to be black in America. Jones’s work has been exhibited internationally across the USA, Canada, and Indonesia, and is in the collections of the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Museum Foundation Collection in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Jones has received her BA in studio art from Central State University in Ohio and her MFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she served as an Assistant Professor of Art and as the Director of the University’s Kipp Gallery from 2019 - 2020. She is now an art educator in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jones' artwork and research on identity, colorism, and discrimination among women in the Black community has resulted in numerous requests for presentations and lectures. Her work has been favorably reviewed and recognized in a number of publications.