Carola Jones

Academically trained studio artist, and Eastern North Carolina Algonquin cultural arts knowledge keeper. Art and Design Teaching Artist with experience in Social Media marketing and Internet Technologies. A writer and Pow Wow dancer in love with creating color. Multi-generational natural dye practitioner growing, harvesting and dyeing cloth using indigo, madder, marigold and natural dyes. Possess a passion for sewing, quilting and hand embroidery. Studio artist exploring the art concepts of place and memory in oil paintings in relationship to sacred indigenous landscapes, geographical places connected to my ancestors, and Christian faith based iconography.