Upcoming Events

Photographs by Laura Jones, Robert Houston, and Diana Davies,  are included in the exhibition Solidarity Now! at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn.

This is a new exhibition with extensive artifacts , posters, videos, and oral histories about the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign with emphasis on the multicultural aspects of the earlier campaign and its relevance to current social justice events. The exhibition was created by the National African American Museum of History and Culture, based partially on the 2018 exhibition City of Hope.  The Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service is touring the exhibition. The following is the schedule:

Exhibition City State Venue Opening Date Closing Date
Memphis
Tennessee
5/14/2022
07/31/2022
Dallas
Texas
8/13/2022
02/29/2023
Cincinnati
Ohio
3/18/2023
6/11/2023
Jackson
Mississippi
7/1/2023
9/24/2023
Santa Fe
New Mexico
10/14/2023
1/15/2024
Tacoma
Washington
2/3/2024
4/28/2024
Springfield
Illinois
5/18/2024
8/18/2024

PAST EVENTS

March 8, 2022

Featured artist on www.curatednow.ca

March 16, 2022

Video presentation at Femme Folks Fest, Waterloo

www.femmefolksfest.ca

The Other Dream: King and the Poor People’s Campaign

opening October, 2019

Exhibition includes 2 photographs by Laura Jones from her Anti-Poverty Series

National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia

Image Show and Sale

November 24, 2019 12 noon – 4pm

Photographic Historical Society of Canada

free admission

Toronto Arts & Letters Club

14 Elm St

Toronto, Ontario

MLK 50

April, 2018 – indefinite

Laura Jones is Participating Photographer

National Civil Rights Museum

Memphis, Tennessee

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS 

National African American Museum of African American History & Culture

(22 photographs by Laura Jones)

Washington, D.C.

Rights to use until 2024

Canadian Museum of Immigration –

Pier 21

1 Photograph of immigration counselling

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Currently in Production 

Film: My Time’s Coming: Story of the Punks

Participating Photographer

(Shot partially in Toronto)

“City of Hope, Resurrection City”

Jan 2018 – Feb.  2019

Installation – Participating Photographer  (10  photographs)

Museum of American History

Washington, D.C.


 

The Velvet Underground, 1969

Rock & Roll Revival  at the CNE

2018 – June 2019   photograph by Laura Jones

Unlovable Bar, 1415B Dundas W.

Toronto

Photographs of Women by Women 1972

March, 23, 2018

An Ad Lib event

Display and discussion with Laura Jones, June Clark, Pamela Harris, and Lisa Steele

Exhibition created by Women’s Photography Coop.  Catalogue published by Coach House Press

Toronto Arts &  Letters Club

The Big Classy, Small Works

December, 2017-January 6, 2018

Group show – including 5 recent photographs by Laura  Jones

Toronto Arts & Letters Club

“Eyes and Ears on Activism”

February 9, 2018

Panel Discussion with video about Laura Jones

University of Virginia,  Charlottesville, Virginia


Apropos of Something

February 10, 2018

In-studio interview with Laura Jones, Resist Radio

Charlottesville, Virginia

Video about Laura Jones and

the Poor Peoples Campaign

Feb. 12, 2018

For use by Prof. Ed Gibson 

University of Baltimore,  Baltimore, Maryland

Six Of The Best – Photographic History:

The Photographic Historical Society of Canada’s monthly presentation.

Laura Jones is one of six speakers. She will show slides and talk about the history of the Baldwin Street Gallery of Photography, Canada’s first privately run photography gallery.

Other  illustrated talks on Canadian photography from 1867-2017 featuring wet plate photography, , 3D images, history of documentary photography, rooftopping and Atlantic Provinces photographers.

June 21, 2017,   7:00pm FREE,

North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge St , Toronto (conveniently indoor walk from North York Centre subway

East York Cultural Hot Spot

Creativity from the Stacks

Walter Stewart Library

Dozens of cultural events will take place in the parks, libraries, community centres on the streets. East End Writers’ Group members emerge beyond the S. Walter Stewart Library stacks to share their creativity in the library’s auditorium. Hosted by group founder Sharon A. Crawford.

JoinGia Petric  (sample writing critique session) Nishe Catherine (creative non-fiction and poetry), Gail Murray (travel memoir) Laura Jones (photography and memoir), Nicholas Nanos (singing and song writing), Lee Parpart (poetry), Paola Ferrante (short fiction), Shane Joseph (comedy skit) and Sharon A. Crawford (comedy skit)

June 28, 2017 .    6.30 p.m. to 7.15 p.m. Reception;  7.15 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mixed Media Presentation  9 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Mix and Mingle

Sanctuary, An American’s Border-crossing Tale.  

Zoomer magazine’s May, 2017  issue includes a 2 page article about Laura as told to Suzanne Bowness

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/zoomer-magazine/20170403/282815011071731

Family History Through Photography

an AdLib event

Friday, May 12, 7:00 in the third floor studio, Free

Toronto Arts & Letters Club http://www.artsandlettersclub.ca

Jack Gilbert and Laura Jones introduced their family histories through photography. Jack will present his 70th birthday video (includes his fascinating family history).  Jack is a retired lawyer whose family has been continuously in the photography business in Toronto since 1922 when his father arrived from the Ukraine. Photography By Jack Gilbert

Laura Jones' great grandmother as a child. Laura Barlow Reed

Daguerreotype of Laura Jones’ great grandmother as a child.    Laura Barlow Reed

Although one of Laura’s relatives took tintypes, most of  her family photos are by non relatives. She brought some early photographic processes including daguerreotypes,  ambrotypes, tin types, and carte de visits. She discussed researching her family history and the nitrate negatives from 1888, long forgotten and rediscovered. Now beautifully printed by Marco Buonocore

Mandan, North Dakota

Mandan,  Dakota Territories 1888 photos taken by Lyman N. Cary

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 Baldwin Village

Laura Jones Photographer, solo photography show

March 5-31, 2017

Toronto Arts & Letters Club

The exhibition included both original vintage silver gelatin prints and modern giclee prints of the Toronto’s multi-cultural Baldwin St. neighbourhood.

Laura Jones with (miniature ) Club President John Goddard

Laura Jones
with miniature  Club President John Goddard

MONDAY, MARCH 6

Club Night Dinner,  solo photography show and group art show openings

Art Show Club Opening—Laura Jones celebrates her anniversary of 50 years in Canada, having arrived with an American “draft dodger” to establish a new home here, in 1967. Along with introducing the exhibition itself, Baldwin Village: An Immigrant Experience, 1967, Laura will present a 4-minute animated film and talk about her experience opening a photography gallery in the dynamic, multi-cultural block of Baldwin, between McCaul and Beverley.

Laura Jones at Members and Guests Dinner

Laura Jones
at Members and Guests Dinner

Movement Photographs

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Unlovable Gallery

Unlovable Gallery

Nov. 27, 2016

Image Fair

Photographic Historical Society of Canada

The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto

14 Elm St.

This is a new venue, a smaller show, but in a centrally located beautiful historic building. November  Image Fair is in addition to the large May and October Photographica Fairs held at Trident Hall, 145 Evans Ave. Toronto. The Photographica Fair  has extensive cameras and equipment and some images

Poor People’s Campaign

Laura Jones Photographer, solo photography show

Ontario Human Rights Commission

Sept.21,  2015 – May, 2016

Laura giving tour of her photos at the Ontario Human Rights Commission

Laura giving tour of her photos at the Ontario Human Rights Commission on the International Day of Peace.

BOPSers

Black Ontario Public Service  Employees Network – Catalysts of Change

Black Liberation, There and Then, Here and Now

February 29. 2016

Laura Jones speaking at Catalysts for Change

Laura Jones speaking at Catalysts for Change

Social Documentary Photography

Claude Watson School of the Arts

February, 2016

Laura Jones Guest Speaker with Journalism classes at Claude Watson School for the Arts, Toronto

Laura Jones Guest Speaker with Journalism classes at Claude Watson School for the Arts, Toronto

The Art of Protest

Laura Jones

Laura Jones

an Ad Lib Event at the Arts & Letters Club

June 19, 2015

AdLib The Art of Protest Crowd photo by Vanessa Tamburro

Guests at AdLib The Art of Protest 
photo by Vanessa Tamburro

The content of the evening included American Civil Rights photos by Laura Jones, John Phillips, (1945-2010)  and Morgan Jones Phillips.  The night also included a rough cut video taken in March 2015  in Selma by Bennett Jones Phillips and Lisa Pereira and a spoken word piece by Laura with her grandson Zenon Phillips playing the piano.

Photos were everywhere - all over the art room

Photos were  all over the studio  photo by Vanessa Tamburro

EXILE: From Baldwin to Berlin: Photographs by Corey Glass & Laura Jones

Monday May 11, 2015

Portland Room @ The Spoke Club 600 King St. W. Toronto

Sponsored by the War Resisters Support Campaign and Friends of Corey Glass

Peace

Baldwin Street is a well known immigrant reception neighbourhood. One wave of immigrants were war resisters from the Vietnam War.  Laura Jones and John Phillips were part of that community.

Corey Glass didn’t find Canada as welcoming as the earlier war resisters. He faced deportation and left for Berlin.

Although Canada did not officially support the Vietnam War or the Iraq War, the Canadian government welcomed the first group and did not welcome the second.

Laura Jones photo  Peace Bridge/Peace flag

HOT SHOTS Photo Display

at “DOORS OPEN TORONTO” 

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Arts & Letters Club 14 Elm St. Toronto

“ Hot Shots”, a juried group show,  will be viewable to the public during “Doors Open”  If you haven’t been to the Arts & Letters Club, this is a chance to take a look and to see a photography exhibit taken by club members. Five of Laura Jones’ photos are included in this exhibit. She also participated in three previous Arts & Letters Club juried “Hot Shots” shows. One year she displayed lenticular 3D images.

 

Power, People & Possibilities: Social and Environmental Justice in South Riverdale, Leslieville and Riverside

May 2, 2015   11:00 am

Jane’s Walk

Here’s the reminder from Councillor Paula Fletcher
May 2 at 11am, please join me and special guests on our walk “Power, People & Possibilities: Social & Environmental Justice in South Riverdale, Leslieville & Riverside” which uncovers the history of social and environmental justice in South Riverdale, Leslieville and Riverside… Special Guest Speakers include: Jim Houston, former Executive Director of the Ralph Thornton Centre and long-time community activist. Jim’s deep-rooted knowledge of organizing and community mobilization brings light to opportunities for change. Brian Smith.was the CEO of WoodGreen Community services, for 36 years… a champion for affordable housing and strong social services in South Riverdale…Laura Jones,  former City Councillor and School Trustee for Riverdale. As a community organizer with the South Riverdale Community Health Centre in the early 90s, she helped activate residents on environmental issues, resulting the largest cleanup of contaminated soil to date in North America.

Don’t miss this exciting walk. I hope to see you there,
Councillor Paula Fletcher
Ward 30 – Toronto Danforth

50th anniversary of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March

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March 6-9, 2015

After 50 years, social inequality continues and the need for raising awareness and protest continues.

After 50 years, social inequality continues and the need for raising awareness and protest continues.

Selfies in Selma

Participants Taking Selfies in Selma

Bennett Jones Phillips at Selma Interpretive Center looking at John F. Phillips' photo of Jimmy Webb

Bennett Jones Phillips at Selma Interpretive Center looking at John F. Phillips’ photo of Jimmy Webb

Morgan Phillips and his son Zenon Phillips standing by John F Phillips photo of Selma march in 1965

Morgan Phillips and his son Zenon Phillips standing by John F Phillips’  photo of Selma march in 1965

The Old Book and Paper Show – “Toronto’s biggest one-day ‘Vintage print-fest’ “

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Bennett Jones Phillips and I will be selling rare and collectible images  at Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St., Toronto. 10am – 4pm. Admission $8. www.antiqueshowscanada.com  This is our third show at this location. It’s a friendly event and well worth going.

The Photographic Historical Society of Canada’s  Image Show.

We (Bennett Jones Phillips and Laura) will be selling vintage and giclee prints; books, and photographica

April 28t, 2013 at the Royal Canadian Legion #101, 3850 Lakeshore Blvd. W., Toronto. 10am – 3pm. Admission $7.   www.phsc.ca

Early Canadian Women Photographers

Etobicoke Camera Club

March 4, 2013

After a short discussion of  club business, Laura will speak about historical Canadian women photographers and show a selection of her own work.   Guests are welcome.

Humber Valley United Church , 76 Anglesey Boulevard, (East of Islington Avenue and north of Rathburn Road) Etobicoke