Tressa Jones

Tressa Jones is an artist and printmaker originally from Boston, MA, currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her BS in Exercise Science from the University of Massachusetts, completed Post-Baccalaureate studies in Printmaking at New Mexico Highlands University, and earned an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Montana. Her travels and creative research, which include residencies at Kunstnarhuset Messen in Ålvik, Norway, the Vermont Studio Center, and research on the landscape and Land Art of the American West, fuel her artistic investigation of time and its manifestations in the body, landscape, and built environment. Jones’s studio practice is complemented by work at non-profit arts organizations and educational institutions. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Design at LaRoche University, instructs printmaking workshops at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts & Media, and is raising an awesome toddler.