Instructor of Visual Arts
Nielsen Center for Visual Arts 210
Education
- 2022 Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
- 2022 Women and Gender Studies Graduate Certification, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
- 2014 Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications and Art and Design, Texas State, University, San Marcos, TX
Courses taught
- Painting Workshop
- Intermediate Drawing
- Figure
- Painting 2/3
- Junior Critique
Research interests
- Painting
- Figurative painting/drawing
- Feminist theory
Biography
Aimee Jones is a visual artist and educator currently working in St. Petersburg, Florida. She earned her BS in Advertising at Texas State University (2014) and earned her MFA and Graduate Certification in Women and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida (2022). She was granted the 2023 Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant, was a finalist for the Carlos Malamud Prize in 2022 and was a participant in the HANNAC Can Borni Residency in Barcelona, Spain in 2018. Her most recent solo exhibition Of Momentos and Fetishes was shown at Art Center Sarasota (2024). Recent exhibitions have included Skyway: Contemporary Collaboration at the Tampa Museum of Art 2024 (FL), Pen and Brush (NYC), Rollins Museum (FL), University of Central Florida (FL), ICOSA (TX), and more. Her specialty is painting the human figure transformed in both domestic and botanical landscapes while researching feminist theory.
