Jones

David Jones is a printmaking/photo/digital creative who immerses himself in the intersection between digital imagery, handwork, and sound.  Jones uses generative systems in his work to explore imagery using sound to support a constantly changing visual scape (Randon Chance Operations) either projected in real-time or published online as time-defined image/sound pieces. Co-founder of Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL, and Anchor Press, Paper & Print, Kenosha and Milwaukee WI, he is passionate about collaborating with other makers and educating young people and adults about creative problem solving through printmaking.  Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he moved to the Midwest to pursue studies in photography and printmaking. He attended the Center for Photographic Studies, Louisville; Banff Centre for the Arts; the Vancouver School of Art; received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, and his MA from the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Interdisciplinary Art at Columbia College Chicago. He has taught printmaking at the Chicago Art Institute, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and Columbia College Chicago. He has served on the Advisory Board of the Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis. He has served as President of Southern Graphics Council International and was Interim Director at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NYC. His visiting artist positions include the University of Iowa; Guanlan Printmaking Base, China; U. of Veracruz, Mexico; P.R.I.N.T., Texas; and many others throughout the U.S. His residencies include Cill Rialaig, Ireland; Presse Papier, Canada; and Grafikas Kamera, Latvia. Solo and two-person exhibits include Kenosha Public Museum, WI; Columbia University, NYC; Louisiana Tech University; mn Gallery, Chicago; and others throughout the U.S.