LESSON 9 (THE FREEDOM RIDERS) 

Lecture and video projection project

April 12, 6-8pm JSU Department of Art and Design

Barry Jones is a Professor of Art in the Department of Art + Design at Austin Peay State University. He received an MFA from the University of South Carolina and a BFA from Austin Peay State University. He has exhibited work in many museums, including the Asheville Art Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Hunter Museum of Art, and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

Barry was born in Anniston, Alabama, and most of his extended family still live there. Jacksonville State University will host Barry’s projection presentation on April 12 from 6-8 pm. It will consist of multiple projections using archival photographs of the events and texts from first-person narratives.

Barry believes reading is one of the best ways to become an empathetic person and develop compassion for other world views. In the project, he works with writings from the Freedom Riders and their stories. I am incredibly attracted to printed and written text. 

“I enjoy making images of text from books I love using a macro camera lens as well as the beautiful look of my children’s handwriting. When I find a passage that especially resonates with me, I understand it more fully by writing it out myself. I will ask my children to do the same in this piece.” 

Please join us April 12 for a guest lecture at 6pm in the Anders Roundhouse 101 lecture hall, and the video projection presentation directly following at 7pm on the quad between Hammond Hall and Angle Hall. 

For more information, please visit https://www.jsu.edu/arts-humanities/kaleidoscope/index.html

Or contact Gallery Coordinator Morgan Worsham at mworsham@jsu.edu.