Seitu Jones

Seitu Ken Jones is a fourth generation Minnesotan and a product of the Minneapolis Public Schools and the University of Minnesota. As a freelance visual artist, Seitu, creates large-scale public artworks and scenic designs, for theaters. His art has been exhibited at Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the American Craft Museum, in New York, the Renwick Gallery,in Washington DC, the Kentucky Craft Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the National Black Arts Festival. Seitu helped create the Celebration of Life, a 200' long mural in north Minneapolis in collaboration with Tacoumba Aiken and John Biggers that was demolished in 2001. Seitu is currently working with the City of Minneapolis to create designs for bridges and overlooks in the new Heritage Park housing development in north Minneapolis and the City of St. Paul on a new indoor farmer´s market. As a scenic designer, he has created sets for Penumbra Theater (where he is a company member), Macalester College, Pangea World Theater, all in Minnesota and First Stages Milwaukee and the Chernin Center for the Arts in Chicago. He has also created designs for the Minneapolis Children´s Theater, the Guthrie Theater, the Illusion Theater, the Walker Art Center and PS 122, in New York. Seitu is the former Community Programs Coordinator for Walker Art Center. He has been awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, a Bush Artist Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts/Theater Communication Group (NEA/TCG) Designer Fellowship. Seitu was chosen to do a three month residency in the Fort Greene community of Brooklyn N.Y., hosted by 651 ARTS and the Mid Atlantic Foundation, as a part of the Artists create for the Millennium. As a result of that residency, he designed a set of wrought iron gates for the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, an underground railroad site in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY. He was awarded a 2001-2002 Loeb Fellowship to conduct research into cultural landscapes in Harvard University and was also the visiting artist in HarvardŐs Ceramic Program.

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