An Overview
Despite facing discrimination, Loïs Mailou Jones had a successful career as an artists and as a professor at Howard University. She traveled around the world to Paris, Haiti, and Africa for inspiration. Jones has become an important role model for African American artists.
This comic is part of a series Drawn to Art: Tales of Inspiring Women Artists that illuminates the stories of women artists in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Inspired by graphic novels, these short takes on artists’ lives were each drawn by a student-illustrator from the Ringling College of Art and Design.
