Projects / archive
A practice built through projects.
Sustained inquiries into relation, meaning, agency, belonging, and the forms people make together: research, workshops, exhibitions, organizations, gatherings, books, houses, and archives. Individual images, films, objects, and publications appear in Selected Work.
Trauma Diaspora
Beginning with the dissertation Archiving the Trauma Diaspora and continuing as a book project, this work examines how trauma and disability are lived, narrated, materialized, archived, and made public through art, writing, pedagogy, technology, and embodied practice.
Forms include scholarship, handmade books, archival objects, teaching, workshops, and public presentations.
Homecoming: Writing, Making, Belonging
A six-session arts-based writing program developed for people navigating housing and financial insecurity, grief, disability, addiction, trauma, and social isolation. The work joins facilitated writing, witnessing, making, collective publication, and public celebration.
Developed as part of a broader Township role in training, facilitation, program support, and health-and-wellness curriculum development.
Writing for Resiliency and Recovery
A sustained generative writing practice for people living with personal, institutional, and structural violence. The workshop treats writing as craft, inquiry, witness, and a way of developing language for difficult experience without requiring disclosure or a performance of recovery.
The Art of Loss
An ongoing writing community centered on grief, loss, memory, and creative practice, developed through Amherst Writers & Artists and the Power of Story program.
Coming Home / Self-Care Writing
The workshops, poems, prints, drawings, body maps, collected book, exhibition, and reading formed a public space around home, bodies, welcome, and exclusion.
Curated at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.
Where Is Home? — Mapping Safety, Connection, and Belonging
This exhibition brings House and Home (2012), The Work We Do While Doing Our Work (2018), Coming Home / Self-Care Writing (2024), and Homecoming (2026) into conversation. It asks where home happens, and what people make when safety, connection, and belonging do not happen automatically.
Connections Room, I Hotel Conference Center, Champaign, 7:00–10:00 a.m. Cunningham Township Supervisor’s Office, with support from the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. Photograph of the installed exhibition.
Gathering as form
Community Creativity Workshops, Sunday Night Salon, Queer Soup Night, readings, meals, and recurring gatherings treat hospitality and sustained participation as forms of cultural practice. The work asks how ordinary social structures can reduce isolation and build interdependence.
Designing social forms
Across teaching, facilitation, organizational leadership, and immersive programs, Jones has worked with the School for Designing a Society and Gesundheit Institute on collective inquiry into health care, desire, humanism, abolitionist and ecological solidarities, and experimental forms of living and learning together.
CMind / Fetzer / Barger Leadership Institute
Executive consulting, social-transformation research, grant and membership strategy, qualitative program evaluation, interviews, participant observation, focus groups, photovoice, and institutional learning. These projects connect the organizational and research dimensions of the larger practice.
Paper and collective publication
Book arts, zines, chapbooks, paper, binding, and collective publication recur across teaching and community practice. An individual chapter and examples of handmade work appear in Selected Work.