Jordan Jones is an arts worker living and working in Seattle. She currently serves as the Director + Curator of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in the School of Art + Art History + Design at the University of Washington. In her role, she provides curatorial, programming, and administrative leadership and oversight in their newly renovated exhibition space. The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is devoted to education, social justice, and experimentation that honors the legacy of one of the 20th century’s greatest artists, Jacob Lawrence. Through an ambitious program of contemporary exhibitions, the gallery seeks to carry his work forward as a place where we can come together in community to talk about art, but also the pressing concerns of our times. Before accepting this 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. She has participated in the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Museum Education Practicum, the Center for Book Arts’ Creative Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers, and CUE Art Foundation’s Art Critic Mentorship Program. 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.