Jordan Jones (she/her)

Jordan Jones is an arts worker who was living and working New York prior to her move to Seattle in April 2024 to join the School of Art + Art History + Design as the  Director + Curator of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. In her role , Jordan provides curatorial, programming, and administrative leadership and oversight in the newly renovated state-of-the-art exhibition space. 

Before accepting the position, she was the Exhibitions Coordinator at Independent Curators International (ICI), working across all of ICI’s traveling exhibitions. Previously, she was a joint Curatorial Fellow at The Studio Museum in Harlem and The Museum of Modern Art. While at Studio Museum, she worked with the permanent collection and co-organized Harlem Postcards Winter 2020 and Hearts in Isolation, the 2020 Expanding the Walls exhibition. At MoMA, Jones worked in the Department of Drawings and Prints. She has participated in the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program (IATP), the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Museum Education Practicum, and the Center for Book Arts’ Creative Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers. She has also completed residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center on Governors Island and The Vermont Studio Center. Jones received a B.A. from Williams College in Studio Art and Comparative Literature.