About this event

Join us as we recreate some of the works of the legendary Harlem Renaissance painter and art educator, Lois Mailou Jones. Take you pick of Lois Mailou Jones paintings to recreate under the guidance of an experienced painting instructor.

Who is Lois Mailou Jones?

Visual artist Lois Mailou Jones was born in 1905 in Boston, Massachusetts to Thomas Vreeland and Carolyn Dorinda Jones. Her father was a superintendent of a building and later became a lawyer, her mother was a cosmetologist. Early in life Jones displayed a passion for drawing, and her parents encouraged this interest by enrolling her in the High School of Practical Arts in Boston where she majored in art. In 1927, Jones graduated with honors from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and continued her education at the Boston Normal School of Arts and the Designers Art School in Boston.