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                         Exposure

         Authored Article Out in Studio Potter Journal

To read the whole article, Seeding Hope for the Future, click this link and sign up or log in: 
https://studiopotter.org/seeding-hope-future 

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Professional Studio Practice 

ArtAxis Membership

Visit the page here: https://artaxis.org/rachael-marne-jones/

Artaxis.org is an evolving independent network of contemporary artists and their work.The mission of Artaxis is to provide a peer-reviewed source of contemporary artwork in ceramics and sculpture. Utilized as a resource by instructors, students, gallerists, curators, the general public, and contemporary artists, Artaxis.org strives to promote and enrich the field, while functioning as a direct and unobtrusive conduit between viewer and artist.

Quartz Inversion
The Moment of Change

Nominated in the second round of artists, Check back to see what Rachael has been doing during the lockdown... 
Quartz Inversion is as follows: 
"We are going through a period of extraordinary change.
Analogous, perhaps, to quartz inversion in ceramics: the shift that occurs during firing, at 573 degrees Centigrade, when quartz crystal changes its structure (from alpha to beta), with an accompanying change in volume—expanding as the kiln temperature rises, contracting again as it falls. If clay is cooled too fast as it passes through this temperature, it cracks.
What kinds of creative shifts are artists experiencing as a consequence of the current pandemic? Will we survive unscathed, making the same kind of work we’ve always made, or will we crack—yielding to unfamiliar (or forgotten) modes of practice?"
-Janet Abrams and Adil Writer 
(Founders of Quarts Inversion)

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Trace Remains
An Exhibition of
Sculptural and Lens Based work of Rachael Marne Jones and Ryan Parker
in conjunction with
Extraction: Art On the Edge 

Along with photographer/Mixed Media artist Ryan Parker, Rachael recently had an exhibition in conjunction with the Extraction event of 2021 at the Richard F. Brush Gallery. They also are included in the EXTRACTION MEGAZINE Catalog and Exhibition Guide Book.
See link here: 
Megazine part 2: Selected Exhibitions and Events 
Excerpt written by Rachael Jones & Ryan  Parker 

The Event is as follows: 
"EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss is a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention that will investigate extractive industry in all of its forms (from mining and drilling to the reckless exploitation of water, soil, trees, marine life, and other natural resources). The project will expose and interrogate extraction’s negative social and environmental consequences, from the damage done to people, especially indigenous and disenfranchised communities, to ravaged landscapes and poisoned water to climate change and its many troubling implications. " 

https://www.extractionart.org/​

You can watch short documentaries  on the artist's thoughts behind the exhibition (and see the work) here: 
Rachael's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkdSqy59o-M&t=8s 
Ryan's: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4G0b1b3qk 

(For a more detailed view of the exhibition, go to the Exhibitions Tab located in the menu bar above ) ​

Art & The Environment: Three Voices

Big Sky Journal Article Published Here:
bigskyjournal.com/Article/artists-of-the-west-art-and-the-environment-three-voices

MSU graduate art student wins fellowship to promote agricultural sustainability in Israel

Link: Read Article Here:
www.montana.edu/news/17673/msu-graduate-art-student-wins-fellowship-to-promote-agricultural-sustainability-in-israel

The Seed Bank  Project has been featured on The Socially Engaged Craft Website!

Read the article Here:
https://sociallyengagedcraftcollective.org/2018/07/02/the-seed-bank-project-by-rachael-marne-jones/

 Teaching/Learning

Flexibility, Creativity, Community: The Art of Remote Learning

Ceramics courses quickly adapt to the rapid changes of the COVID 19 pandemic. From slip casting at home, learning new methods of expression like claymation, and visiting with artists around the country, SLU art students find the value in being able to rely on creativity to imagine possible solutions to real life problems. 
Link Here:
https://www.stlawu.edu/news/flexibility-creativity-community-art-remote-learning

Conservation In Clay 

Through a collaborative research and sculpture project created by Ceramics Professor Rachael M. Jones & Biology Professor Kris Hoffman, St. Lawrence students were able Amphibian and Reptile species Native to  New York. Ceramics 1 and Herpetology students worked together to research, sculpt and talk about their chosen species with the culmination of an exhibition & Public talks at the Launders Science Library in the Spring semester of 2019. Many thanks to Nature Up North, and the Mini-Hearst Grant for making this collaboration possible!
Read more about it Here: 
​https://www.stlawu.edu/art-and-art-history/photo-gallery/exhibition-and-reception-conservation-clay-collaborative

Planting Seeds Across Generations

www.stlawu.edu/news/planting-seeds-connection-across-generations.The Seed Bank Project Teams Up with Local Farmers & Agro-Ecology Students at St. Lawrence University to save North Country-specific, Agricultural Seed Varieties.
Published By St. Lawrence Magazine Spring 2019 Edition
Link here: 
https://www.stlawu.edu/news/planting-seeds-connection-across-generations

                             Service

Montana State University Students build a Wood kiln for the Sâo Laurenco Community Sculpture Studio as part of the Bienel De Curitiba, 2017 in Brazil. 

Read All about it here:
http://www.montana.edu/news/17562 

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