Sara Jones

Senior Coordinator of Special Projects, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive

Sara Jones is the Senior Coordinator of Special Projects in the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive, where she manages exhibitions, publications, and school accreditation reviews. Her recent exhibition and curatorial work for The Cooper Union includes Lessons from Modernism: Environmental Design Considerations in 20th Century Architecture (1925 to 1970), Carlo Scarpa: An Architect at Work, and Musikerhaus: Raimund Abraham.

In addition to her duties at The Cooper Union, Jones is a visual artist and has shown internationally, including at the Belas Artes University Gallery in São Paolo, Brazil, the Scope Art Fair in New York, and the Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University. She will attend a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in May 2013, and was featured in New American Paintings, #104, Northeast edition. She received her MFA from the joint degree program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and her BA from Connecticut College.

 

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