AMELIA-COLETTE JONES
www.sharkysday.com
ameliacolettejones@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2009 M.F.A. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2005 B.F.A. Cum Laude, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2004 SMU-in-Oxford Summer Intensive, University College, Oxford, Oxford, England
European Diplomacy: Napoleon to the European Union
TEACHING
2025 3D Design Instructional Technician, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2024 Art Teacher, Lower School, Chaminade College Preparatory, St. Louis, MO
2023 Adjunct Faculty, 2D Design, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
2022 Adjunct Faculty, 2D Design, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
2021 Adjunct Faculty, Color Theory, St. Charles Community College, Cottleville, MO
2020 Adjunct Faculty, 3D Design, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
2020 Instructor, Drawing, Portfolio Plus Program, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2019 Adjunct Faculty, Printmaking, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
2019 Instructor, Drawing, Portfolio Plus Program, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2019 Adjunct Faculty, Color Theory, St. Charles Community College, Cottleville, MO
2019 Adjunct Faculty, Art History, St. Charles Community College, Cottleville, MO
2018 Adjunct Faculty, 2D Design, St. Charles Community College, Cottleville, MO
2017 Printmaking & Book Arts Instructional Technician, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Critical Theory, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2008 Graduate Printing Assistant, Island Press, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2007 Graduate Teaching Assistant, 3D Design, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2007 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Drawing I, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
SERVICE
2019 Facilitator Witnessing Whiteness, YWCA, St. Louis, MO
2018 Counselor, Americorp, Belleville, IL
2018 Board Vice President, Artscope, St. Louis, MO
2017 Co-Chair, New Leaders Council, St. Louis, MO
2016 Curriculum Chair, New Leaders Council, St. Louis, MO
2016 Board Secretary, Artscope, St. Louis, MO
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2023 Regional Arts Commission Artist Grant, St. Louis, MO
2020 Local Leader, Design Futures Conference, St. Louis, MO
2019 Regional Arts Commission, Program Support Grant, St. Louis, MO
2017 Anti-Defamation League, Glass Leadership Institute, St. Louis, MO
2017 Midwest Arts Projects & Services, Fiscal Sponsorship, St. Louis, MO
2016 Fellow, New Leaders Council Institute, St. Louis, MO
2005 Intern, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
CURATORIAL & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
2022 Coral Green Studios, Curator, Exhibition Manager, St. Louis, MO (through 2024)
2017 Flood Plain Gallery, Co Director, Co Founder & Installation & Event Manager, St Louis, MO (through 2021)
2010 Sloup, Co Director & Co Founder, St. Louis, MO (through 2012)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Amelia-Colette Jones /// Joshua Peder Stulen, CUNST Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2022 Victories & Memory Loss, St. Louis Community College, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
2019 STLCC Faculty Exhibition, St. Louis Community College, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
2019 Brick & Mortar, Truman University, Kirksville, MO
2016 In-stalled, Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, Webster Groves, MO
2015 Homecoming, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
2015 2015 Invitational Exhibition, McNamee Gallery, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
2015 Something Happened, Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
2014 Animal, The Enamel Project, St. Louis, MO*
2013 On the Verge of Failure, Culture Works, Holland, MI
2012 Sharky Sings Paul, Front/Space, Kansas City, MO*
2011 Wasting Time, Pig Slop Studios, St. Louis, MO
2011 Head Over Heels: Sharky’s First Love, Los Caminos, St. Louis, MO
2010 This is Where I Have, Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
*solo exhibition
PANELS/LECTURES
2021 Panel Discussion, Why Make Art Now?, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2020 Panel Discussion, A Context For Artmaking, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2020 Guest Speaker, New Leaders Council, St. Louis, MO
2019 Professional Practices Panel: Artist-Run Spaces, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2019 Panel Discussion, Beyond Museums: Career Paths in Arts & Culture, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2018 Guest Speaker, Women & Gender Studies Conference, Truman University, Kirksville, MO
2016 Artist Talk, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 Stephanie Hernandez “Coral Green’s Story” VoyageSTL Magazine March 3, 2025
2019 Rahel Aima “Counter Culture” Art Forum July 25, 2019
2018 James McAnally “Real Utopias: An Institutional Roundtable” Art In America May, 2018
2018 Christina Wood, “Our Chat With Three Female Co-Directors Of The New Saint Louis Art Gallery, Flood Plain” Alive Magazine, January 18
2018 Stefene Russell "New Cherokee gallery, Flood Plain aims to make St. Louis' arts ecosystem all the richer" St. Louis Magazine January 18
2017 Melissa Buelt, “Flood Plain, New Non-Profit Gallery, Opens on Cherokee Street” Riverfront Times October 16, 2017
2015 Lori Waxman “Amelia-Colette Jones” 60 WRD/MIN ART CRITIC www.60wrdmin.org
2014 David Wolk “Talking with Amelia-Colette Jones about The Sharky Wallpaper” interview conducted via Twitter 12/6/13 - 12/28/13
2011 Francesca Wilmott, “Talk Soup: The Spread of Meal-Based Micro-Grants” Temporary Art Review April 18, 2011
2010 Melissa Meinzer “Maggie Ginestra & Amelia Colette Jones: 2010 MasterMinds” Riverfront Times August 25, 2010
2010 David Weinberg “Arts group tries new community funding approach” St. Louis Public Radio March 1, 2010
COLLECTIONS
Southern Graphics Council Archives
University of Wisconsin Printmaking Archives
Iowa State University Print Society
Kansas City Art Institute Printmaking Archives
WRITING
“Addoley Dzegede at Fort Gondo” Temporary Art Review, January 3, 2016
“Hélène Baril at Museum Blue” Temporary Art Review, February 27, 2015
“Cleavemark Dr. at Fort Gondo” Temporary Art Review, October 17, 2015
“The People in your Neighborhood: Yellow Bear Projects” Temporary Art Review, September 26, 2015
“Everyone KNow This is Nowhere: Tom Reed at Bruno David Gallery” All the Art, Spring 2015
“A Conversation with Jenny Murphy and Brie Cella of Perennial” Temporary Art Review, April 26, 2015
“Proper Residency: A Conversation with Angela Malchionno” Temporary Art Review, March 14, 2015
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2019 Exhibition Preparator, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO
2018 Exhibition Preparator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2017 Exhibition Preparator, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO
2016 Exhibition Preparator, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2016 Exhibition Preparator, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2015 Exhibition Preparator, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
2014 Exhibition Preparator, World Chess Hall of Fame Museum, St. Louis, MO