HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The Huntsville Museum of Art will open an exhibit of the works Loïs Mailou ... begins with Jones' early textile designs and sketches from the Harlem Renaissance and examines ...

Loïs Mailou Jones was the longest-surviving artist of the Harlem Renaissance who attained fame while living in Paris during the 1930s and 1940s. Influenced by the movement, Jones' established a ...

But Mailou Jones was rightly irritated at being referred to primarily as a "black female artist." Although she made paintings about the Harlem Renaissance, Jim Crow, lynching, civil rights ...

Today, despite the odds, Jones is historically recognized as the longest-surviving artist of the Harlem Renaissance and her works have been acquired by several U.S. museums. Jones' teachings have ...