Calvin B. Jones, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetCalvin B. Jones
African-American artist
Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1934
Date of Death: 21-Aug-2010
Profession: artist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Calvin B. Jones
- Calvin Bell Jones (January 7, 1934 – August 21, 2010) was an afrocentric visual artist and a Black Arts Movement activist from Chicago.
- He is known primarily for his nine murals and paintings. He was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Chicago Institute of Art and received his BFA in drawing/painting and illustration in 1957.
- Jones' initial 17-year career was in advertising.
- He was Hallmark Cards' first African American Art Director and worked for the first black-owned ad agency, Vince Cullers Advertising (founded in 1956).
- Additionally, Jones worked with his own company, Sales Graphics Advertising. Jones left advertising in 1970 and became the co-director of the avant garde AFAM Gallery Studio and Cultural Center in Chicago with Alfred Tyler.Beginning in 1976, he became a community mural leader in Chicago and collaborated with Mitchell Caton on six Chicago murals.
- Additionally, Jones' mural portfolio includes a mural in Detroit and Atlanta.
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