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Loïs Mailou Jones
Biography
Loïs Mailou Jones () was a prolific American artist, educator, and champion and mentor of African American artists.
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An influential figure of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Jones was highly educated and actively engaged in her work from an early age. She was skilled in a variety of art forms including costume creation, textile designs, watercolors, paintings, and collages, and her extensive travels enriched her style.
She served on Howard University’s art faculty for nearly fifty years.[1]
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Jones’ parents encouraged her to draw and paint using watercolors. Her father, Thomas Vreeland, was the first African American to earn a law degree from Boston’s Suffolk Law School and her mother, Carolyn Jones, was a cosmetologist.
Jones attended the High School of Practical Arts in Boston and took night classes at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. At the age of seventeen, Jones held her firs
