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Barry R. Jones
@profbarryrjones.bsky.social
Father, husband, artist, and Professor of Art at Austin Peay State University.

www.barryrjones.net
UT Martin on April 4! Come by if you can.
March 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A lot of podcasters. I now make one that is just for my kids.
March 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Annual evaluations suck, but it is nice to look back at student work from the past year. They made some cool stuff.
February 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My first group of students killed their video installation today!
February 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE
February 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Reposted by Barry R. Jones
Trump has disbanded the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The group’s work was grounded in “the fundamental belief that creativity, diversity, and democracy are intrinsically bound, and that the arts and the humanities can be a powerful force for social change.”
Trump Disbands President's Committee on Arts and Humanities
The committee worked on projects including mobilizing artists to counter all forms of hate and the developing role of AI in arts and humanities.
hyperallergic.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It is a beautifully gloomy rainy day.
January 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I hate university bureaucracy
January 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It’s Monday.
January 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by Barry R. Jones
"Second-year Austin Peay faculty member Yun Shin’s new body of work draws from her immersion in the unexpected cadences of parenthood."
-exhibition essay by Emily Stokes

Yun Shin's exhibit Record-Keeping is now open to view. Come check it out!
January 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Get to it!
January 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If you can, check out this exhibition by my good friend Dawn.
My new installation - “Exceptional Myths” now open at East Tennessee State University’s Slocumb Galleries. Go check it out!
January 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Welcome to yet another social media platform @jennifereford.bsky.social !
January 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I'm in my 25th year of full-time teaching, and I still get nervous before the first class. Is this the semester that the students discover that I don't know what I am doing?
a man wearing a black shirt that says " i 'm very anxious about it "
ALT: a man wearing a black shirt that says " i 'm very anxious about it "
media.tenor.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
New semester, new social media app.
January 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM