Spelman College Digital Moving Image Salon Presents a Master Class with Digital Media Artist and Storyteller Philip Mallory Jones

Ayoka Chenzira, Ph.D., director of the Spelman College Digital Moving Image Salon, hosts a master class with digital media artist and storyteller Philip Mallory Jones Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 4 p.m. in the Science Center Auditorium at Spelman College.

Attendees will learn the process artist and innovator Philip Mallory Jones uses to create his award-winning work. Jones will also discuss a series of works created from his artistic collaborations with his mother, Dorothy Mallory Jones, poet, novelist and historian.

The event is free and open to the public. Spelman College is located at 350 Spelman Lane S.W., Atlanta 30314. For more information, call 404-270-5625 or visit www.spelman.edu.

About the Artist
Philip Mallory Jones’ career as an internationally recognized innovator in media art, creative storytelling, and instructional design spans more than four decades. He has incorporated digital modalities since 1990 in the design of online curricula, virtual world environments for teaching/learning, interactive edutainment media, web design, and immersive experiences for museum installation and stage performance. Jones is a certified online course designer and instructor and an accomplished grants writer.

Jones’ distinctive visual and narrative style has garnered numerous national and international awards for his work in transposing the facts and essence of diverse histories and cultures into compelling story experiences for audiences via interactive and immersive environments, both physical and virtual, television, animation, print graphics and books.

Jones has studied the arts, histories and cultures of diverse peoples around the world, having done research and media production in The Caribbean, West and Southern Africa, India, the South Pacific, and Europe. He brings this trove of knowledge, experience and perspective to his work in 3D modeling and simulation, 2D graphics, animation, game design, augmented reality, video, audio, film, photography, and writing.

Throughout his career, Jones has worked successfully in creative teams and artistic collaborations, often for extended time periods with team members dispersed nationally or internationally. Whether as a team leader, co-creator or role-player, he values and thrives in the process of working with other professionals from multiple disciplines toward a shared vision.

Jones has held faculty positions at several universities including The Batza Distinguished Scholar in Art and Art History at Colgate University, and earned master’s of fine arts degree in creative writing at Cornell University.