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THE PAUL R. JONES INITIATIVE
The Paul R. Jones Initiative is a comprehensive program of exhibitions, lectures, residences, publications, performances, symposia, conferences, special events, media productions, course development, research, outreach, partnerships, exchanges, and various other cross-disciplinary programs that utilize images from the Paul R. Jones Collection. The purpose of the Initiative is to enhance the utilization of the Collection and public knowledge of the artists whose work it contains. Initial projects were the instruction of an African American art course
that incorporated works from the collection in 2002, co-sponsorship of
the inaugural annual Paul R. Jones Lecture with the Office of the Dean,
College of Arts and Science in 2002, and the gifting of two paintings by
Wilmington-based artist Edward Loper, Sr. to the collection in 2003.
This fall, Sharon Pruitt, Associate Professor of Art History at East
Carolina University is a Scholar-in-Residence conducting specific
research on selected artists in the collection. In the spring, BAMS
collaborates with the Paul R. Jones Collection and University Museums to
present a special lecture on African American portraiture by Richard J.
Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art History at Duke University.
Projects on Harriet Tubman and John Henry are planned for 2007 and 2008
respectively inspired by works in the collection. A visual studies
seminar based on artworks in the collection will be offered in the fall
2006.
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