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About Me

Through her renown as a performance artist/painter Marcia has traveled extensively: touring the West Coast with the outspoken women's collective SWARM (1997); touring England and Scotland with Poet/Actor/Recording Artist Saul Williams (1998); touring Turkey with Trip-Hop/Acid Jazz Band Wax Poetics (Atlantic Records) including featured performances at the Istanbul International Jazz Festival (1998). She has shared the stage with such performers as Jurassic 5, Ozomatli, Mos Def, Greg Tate's Medusa Oblongata, Imani Azuri, Jessica Care Moore, Sara Jones, and Kim Hill. In addition to collaborative work Marcia has been featured as a solo performance artist at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NY), The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Gallery 678 (NY), 2100 Square Feet (CA), Rush Arts Gallery (NY) and The 18th street Art Complex (CA).However Marcia is not only a performance painter. She also creates studio works and commissions, which include cover illustrations for Time Warner Book of the Month club One Spirit, illustrations through-out Amy Andrieux F*UCKED: An Anthology (powerhouse publishing), and Tish Bensons Wild Like That (Fly By Night Press 2003). Having shared an ongoing collaborative relationship with Poet/Actor/Musician Saul Williams, Jones illustrated Williams CD cover Amethysts Rock Star, and created images through-out SHE (Simon and Schuster). Now, currently serving as the Artistic Director of Moore Black Press publishing Marcia has produced cover images for Saul Williams the Seventh Octave, Jessica Care Moore The Alphabet Verses the Ghetto; More Than and Athlete Poems by Etan Thomas, and The Subtle Art of Breathing by asha bandele. Marcia's large-scale studio and installation works have been exhibited at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC), The Weatherspoon Art Museum (NC), MultiCultural Resource Center Art Gallery at The University of North Carolina At Greensboro, The Elliott University Center Art Gallery (NC), The Eastern Standard Gallery (NC), The Greensboro Artist League (NC),Rush Art Gallery (NY), and New Image Art (CA).Marcia was born in Chicago IL and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She received her Bachelors of Art from Clark Atlanta University (1995), completed studies at the Art Student League (1998), and earned her Masters of Fine Art in painting and sculpture installation from the University of North Carolina (2004) and was selected by Fulton County Arts to attend The Caversham Fellowship in South Africa (2005). Marcia currently resides in Atlanta, GA where she is a Professor of Art at Clark Atlanta UniversityMyspace Profile

My Interests

Art. Music. Books. Film.

I'd like to meet:

some circus folks like tight rope walkers, fortune tellers, and fire throwers, folks who pick pecans to make pecan pies from scratch and people who cook with their families, peach farmers, SC basket weavers, folks who make good acoustic music on the porch like fat alberts junk band..with washboards, banjos, drums, pipes, and fiddles n shit, folks who find real beauty in simplicity.... Pro Neighborhood...Anti Hollywood. It's all about the size of the mighty heart in 2008!

Music:

has saved my life

Movies:

give me perspective

Television:

kills time.

Books:

Are my only true friends.

Heroes:

Bob Ross

My Blog

giving her S.P.A.C.E

please join me in celebrating, honoring, and loving the artistic voice of my twin flame Lee Blalock... Update: Thank you all who attended!! the night was amazing!! Check out this link for photo...
Posted by marcia jones on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:57:00 PST

letting her go

"I lost my daughter and my partner in the same year somehow I rise above my problems and remain here.and I hope the picture painted clearIf your heart filled with faith then you can't fear"yes...a T.I...
Posted by marcia jones on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:43:00 PST

loving...not too hard and not too soft but just right

theres is a beautiful magic in our kissthere is a healing magic in the way he whispers me love poems to sleepthe way he holds my...everythingthe way he looks into my eyesand says yes whether equally b...
Posted by marcia jones on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:09:00 PST

About the Beautiful Suffering of S/he artist talk

the wonderful thing about this artist talk is it will be the first and last of it's kind. I will discuss how I became who I am as an artist... BrookNam circa 1995...I will travel through this part of ...
Posted by marcia jones on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:11:00 PST

Just give us some S.P.A.C.E. A call to Female Artist

I'm putting out a Call to all Female Artist....Join me for the opening of S.P.A.C.E An all female place for cultivating ideas, conversations, workshops, dialouges, collaborations, critiques, performan...
Posted by marcia jones on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:37:00 PST

appreciation to my twin soul mates

Leah, Thank you.. my wonderful sista from anotha motha!! I so value our time spent. Thank you for taking me to India yesterday... and santa he lives in my happy feel good memory bank...that man was co...
Posted by marcia jones on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:07:00 PST

I live to die to be reborn. different shape. different taste. same root

I am chanting/meditating on be-ing an active witness to my world. Maintaining balance and clarity, removing the harsh judgements I place on myself , and actively becoming accountable fo...
Posted by marcia jones on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:10:00 PST

CV

Date of Birth June 25, 1972 Resides: Atlanta GA EDUCATION 2005 Caversham Center for the Arts, Howick, South Africa 2004 University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Master of Fine Arts 1998 The Art Stu...
Posted by marcia jones on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:54:00 PST

THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS UNTITLED...

Through her past renown as a performance artist/painter Marcia traveled extensively: touring the West Coast with the outspoken women's collective SWARM (1997); touring England and Scotland with Poet/...
Posted by marcia jones on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:00:00 PST

To Spot Your Flower

"Every flower has a specific relationship with the insect that pollinates it. Theres a certain Orchid... looks like a certian insect....so the insect is drawn to this flower, its double, its soulmate ...
Posted by marcia jones on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:47:00 PST