Draft:Tom Jones (artist)

Tom Jones (b. 1964), known in Ho-chunk as ChakShepSkaKah or White Eagle, is a Ho-Chunk artist, curator, writer, and educator. He mostly known for his work in photography involving the Ho-chunk Nation, and his images can be found in major metropolitan museums, including the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Jones is a professor of photography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jones captures the beauty of the Ho-chunk Native American Indian Community with his photography skills and has had an exhibition featuring up to 120 photographs at the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in 2022. Jones wanted to bring his people into world by sharing what it means to be apart of the Ho-chunk nation.

Biography
Tom Jones was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1964. Born into the Ho-chunk Native American Indian Community. Started out as a regular artist but fell in love with photography while at grad school in Colombia college while photographing the Ho-chunk nation. Jones has spent two decades honoring and capturing the Ho-chunk nation through his photography skills. Causing Jones work to expand when it came to the Ho-chunk nation, some of his more recent works took up to a 120 hours or more to bead. Jones has also included some family member in his photographs like his mother JoAnn Jones. Jones is currently married and has children enjoying his life while still photographing the Ho-chunk people. His works of art showcase the deep emotions and feelings Jones has towards his Ho-chunk heritage and culture by illustrating different angles, problems and views when in comes to the Ho-chunk nation.

Education
Jones graduated at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin in 1988 with his Bachelor of Fine Art. Afterwards attending a summer program in 1994 at the School of Visual Arts, New York, New York. Lastly getting his Master of Art, Museum Studies, and his Master of Fine Arts, Photography in 2005 at Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois. Currently a professor of photography at the university of Wisconsin-Madiso n and still creating work regarding the Ho-chunk nation.

Artworks
Jones' photographs focus on his Ho-Chunk heritage.

Elizah Leonard, inkjet photographic print, embellished with beads, 2019

Jones photographed Elizah Leonard, a champion PowWow dancer and recipient of an All-American Scholarship for wrestling. In the image, she is "wearing a Fancy Dance shawl, made by her mother, and a beaded necklace and earrings, made by her grandfather." The beads, rhinestones, and shells are sewed directly onto the print. Jones had mentioned being in the "darkened room and seeing small lights appear as he felt voices from their ancestors coming from those lights." Jones surrounds Leonard with an allusion of spirits surrounding her and to her intergenerational story. Jones won second place in The Outwin: American Portrait Today in 2022 with this artwork showcasing the beauty he is able to capture in his work about the Ho-chunk nation.

Raymond Goodbear, from the Strong Unrelenting Spirits series, 2019, archival digital print with beadwork, 40 × 60 in.

Influenced by his Ho-chunk heritage, Jones takes of a photograph of a Ho-Chunk Nation citizen dressed in dance regalia, which showcases different values of textures and details of the Ho-Chunk Nation. The Ho-Chunk Nation citizen holds an eagle-feather fan and decorated war club all while staring beyond the frame, making the audience embrace the Ho-Chunk culture and past.

Jones, Choka Watching Oprah,1999, gelatin silver paint, 16 x 20 in.

This photograph showcases an old man presumably named Choka watching the television while Oprah was on. Choka is laying down on his couch facing the television while in the background one can see the heritage of the man with photos of his family hanging up. Along with other images of his Indian heritage and a rug behind the television with a bear and mountain landscape background. Perfectly capturing the traditional depictions of Indigenous culture and becoming a voice for his generation.

Selected Exhibitions
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Group Exhibitions

 * 2016 - Map(ing), Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
 * 2017 - As We See It:  Works by Ten Contemporary Native American Photographers, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
 * 2017- The Capitol at 100: Madison Artists Celebrate the Centennial, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin
 * 2018 - Original Warrior, National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
 * 2018 - Native American Visions II, Grand Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
 * 2019 - Ho-Chunk Art: Sharing our Sacred Voice through our Art, Overture Galleries, Madison, Wisconsin
 * 2019 - Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
 * 2020 - Fall Show, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
 * 2020 - Voting Rights Are Human Rights (mural in collaboration with Shepard Fairey, Dyani White Hawk, Tyanna Buie, Claudio Martinez, Niki Johnson), Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 * 2022 - Refracting Histories, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
 * 2022 - Speaking with Light, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
 * 2022 - Reclaiming Identity, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, Wisconsin
 * 2023 - Speaking with Light, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
 * 2023 - National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (curated by Juane Quick-To-See Smith)
 * 2023 - Native Photography Exhibition, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
 * 2023 - Surviving the Long Wars, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois

Solo/Two Person Exhibitions

 * 2000 - Wonk Sheek Ka Day/ The Big People, H. H. Bennett Studio Museum-Wisconsin State Historical Society, Wisconsin, Dells, Wisconsin
 * 2001 - The Ho-Chunk People, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota
 * 2001 The Ho-Chunk People, Pump House Regional Art Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin
 * 2003 - The Ho-Chunk People, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, New York Honoring the Ho-Chunk Warrior, Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Madison, Wisconsin
 * 2003 - Choka, De Ricci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin
 * 2004 - Dear America & The Ho-Chunk People, Blue Heron Designs, Birmingham, Michigan
 * 2004 - Honoring the Ho-Chunk Warrior, Michigan State University Museum, Michigan
 * 2004 - The Ho-Chunk People, Nokomis Learning Center, East Lansing, Michigan
 * 2008 - Encountering Cultures, Sundance Cinemas, Madison, Wisconsin Dear America, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri              Encountering Cultures, Endenfred, Madison, Wisconsin
 * 2009 - Rendezvoused, La Biennale di Venezia 53rd international arts exhibition in collaboration with the University of Venice's Department of Postcolonial Literature, Venice, Italy
 * 2012 - Indian First-Identity, Appropriation, and Reclamation, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota "Native" Commodity, Theodore Robinson Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Rock County, Janesville, Wisconsin  Encountering Cultures, Wautrous Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
 * 2012 - I am an Indian first and an Artist second, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
 * 2013 -  I am an Indian first and Artist second, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
 * 2018 - Remnants, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri The North American Landscape, Trout Museum, Appleton, Wisconsin  Remnants, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin (Two Person Show)
 * 2019 - Strong Unrelenting Spirits, Pablo Center at the Confluence, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
 * 2020 - Strong Unrelenting Spirits, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
 * 2020 - Remnants, The Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
 * 2021 - Strong Unrelenting Spirits, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
 * 2022 - Remnants, Leech Gallery, Wriston Art Galleries at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
 * 2022 - Here We Stand,, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
 * 2023 - Here We Stand, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Florida

Collections
Jones's work is held in multiple collections both private and public throughout the United States and other countries including the Amon Carter Museum of American (Fort Worth, Texas), Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe, Arizona), The Center for Photography at Woodstock (Woodstock, New York), Columbia College (Chicago, Illinois), Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts (Pendleton, Oregon), Chazen Museum of Art (Madison, Wisconsin), CUNA Mutual Group (Madison, Wisconsin), Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia, Missouri), En Foco (New York, New York), Georgette Klinger Inc. (Chicago, Illinois), Hallie Ford Museum of Art (Salem, Oregon), The Ho-Chunk Nation (Black River Falls, Wisconsin), Lightwork (Syracuse, New York), MacArthur Foundation (Chicago, Illinois), Mc Millan Memorial Library (Wisconsin Rapid, Wisconsin), Michigan State University Museum (East Lansing, Michigan), Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington), Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, Illinois), Museum of Wisconsin Art (West Bend, Wisconsin), National Museum of the American Indian- Smithsonian Institute (Washington, D.C.), Nerman Museum (Kansas City, Missouri), Polaroid Corporation (Waltham, Massachusetts), Proyecto'ace, Contemporary Print Collection (Buenos Aires, Argentina), The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University (Canton, New York), Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, Ohio), Saint Louis University (Saint Louis, Missouri), Sprint Corporation (Kansas City, Missouri), Tamarind Institute (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth (Duluth, Minnesota), University of Colorado Special Collections (Boulder, Colorado), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center (Lincoln, Nebraska), University of New Mexico Art Museum (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Wriston Art Galleries, Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisconsin).

Honors and Awards
Jones' has received plenty of honors and awards such as:
 * 1982 - Alpha Phi Alpha Scholarship
 * 1986 - Committee on Institutional Cooperation Summer Fellowship
 * 1987 - Committee on Institutional Cooperation Summer Fellowship
 * 1999 - Graduate Assistantship, Columbia College
 * 2000 - Artist's Support Program, Polaroid Corporation

Graduate Assistantship, Columbia College


 * 2001 - Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship Fund

Stuart and Iris Baum Grant


 * 2002 - Wisconsin Humanities Council Grant

Edgewood College Educational Programming Board Grant


 * 2007 - Graduate Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Encountering Cultures"

Graduate Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Horace Poolaw Project"


 * 2008 - Graduate Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Rendezvoused"
 * 2009 - Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, The Visual and Expressive Arts Program

Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, grant for "Rendezvoused" exhibition

University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate School Conference Travel. "Rendezvoused: To Go Somewhere." Venice Biennale 53rd Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte.

Ho-Chunk Nation. "Rendezvoused: To Go Somewhere." Venice Biennale 53rd Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte


 * 2010 - National Geographic's All Roads Photography Award, Nominee

Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Identity Genocide"

Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin–Madison, "Photographer Horace Poolaw: The Calendar-Maker's Son"

University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate School Conference Travel, "Rendezvoused: To Go Somewhere," Venice Biennale 53rd Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte

Ho-Chunk Nation, "Rendezvoused: To Go Somewhere," Venice Biennale 53rd Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte


 * 2011 - ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Award, "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942," Finalist, Photography

Midwest Independent Publishers Association Midwest Books Awards, "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879- 1942," Winner, Midwest Regional Interest-Illustration

Midwest Independent Publishers Association Midwest Books Awards, "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879- 1942," Winner, Total Book Design

USA National Best Book Awards, "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of HoChunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942," Finalist, Best Interior Design

USA National Best Book Awards, "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of HoChunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942," Winner, Photography: People

USA "Best Book 2011" Awards, "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of HoChunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942," Winner for the category of Photography: People Finalist for the category of Best Interior Design

Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "I am an Indian First and an Artist Second"

University of Wisconsin System Institute on Race and Ethnicity, "American Indian Photography"


 * 2012 - Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Identity Genocide (Individual Grant)

Kohler Foundation (Preservation Project-Ho-Chunk Baskets)

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Award, "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879- 1942," Award of Merit

Eric Hoffer Book Awards (Art), "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of HoChunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942," Finalist

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942," Bronze (tie), Multicultural Non-Fiction

National Indie Excellence Awards, "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of HoChunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942," Winner, Multicultural Non-Fiction

Next Generation Indie Book Awards, "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of HoChunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942," Winner (tie), Best Overall Design

Next Generation Indie Book Awards, "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of HoChunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942," Winner, Multicultural Non-Fiction

Wisconsin Historical Society, "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942," Winner, Book Award of Merit


 * 2013 - Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The History and Preservation of Ho-Chunk Basket Making (Individual Grant)
 * 2014 - Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sioux Photographs from the St Francis Mission 1883-1991 (Individual Grant)
 * 2018 - Madison Magazine, 2018 M List: Innovation in the Arts, Award Recipient

Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Romnes Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison


 * 2022 - Second-place prize at the National Portrait Gallery's at Outwin Boochever competition