JASON EARL LORD
Vermont, 1973
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, University of North Carolina–Greensboro NC
Minerva Scholar, 2024
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill NC
Graduation with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, 2022
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Interposed, with Leroi DeRubertis, Durham Arts Council, Durham NC, 2025
Plot Twist, Skylight Gallery, Hillsborough NC, 2025
Winter Psalms, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill NC, 2025
Multiplicity, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro NC, 2024
Landmarks, with Linda Cato, Durham Art Guild, Durham NC, 2022
Gathering, Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2022
The Indeterminate Geometry of Wandering, Attic 506, Carrboro NC, 2021
Drawing Room Presents: New Drawings by Jason Lord, Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2021
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
AIR Showcase, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC, 2025
village impulse, artist/co-director w/ Sterling Bowen, Birdland, Raleigh NC, 2025
Emerging Artists 2025, dodomu gallery (online), 2025
Durham Art Guild 70th Annual Juried Exhibition, Truist Gallery, Durham NC, 2024
Open Source, Wilma W. Daniels Gallery, Wilmington NC, 2024
Peel @ Rebus Works, Rebus Works, Raleigh NC, 2024
A Celebration of the ADA, Arts Access Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2024
MFA Thesis Exhibition 2024, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC, 2024
Drawing Madness (online), Conversations with Artists, 2024
I Like Your Work Podcast–Winter Exhibition (online, catalog) 2024
Durham Art Guild 69th Annual Juried Exhibition, Truist Gallery, Durham NC, 2023
upstART Gallery: a Jim Lee Project, Pop Box Gallery (OED residency), Durham NC, 2023
Open Source, Sertoma Arts Center and Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2023
Resolutions 2022, Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough NC, 2022
BASEMENT X PEEL, Basement Art Space, Chapel Hill, NC, 2022
The Love Letter, Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2022
Durham Art Guild 67th Annual Juried Exhibition, Durham Arts Council, Durham NC, 2021
Bad Touch 2.0, Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2021
Art Walk on Franklin (online), Arts Everywhere, Chapel Hill NC, 2021
New Works, New Blood, PS 118, Horse & Buggy Press, Durham NC, 2020-21
RESIDENCIES
McColl Center, Charlotte NC, 2025
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst VA, 2025
Penland School of Craft, Bakersville NC, 2025
LEVEL Retreat, Chapel Hill NC, 2025
Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft, Columbia NC, 2025
The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT, 2024
The Peter Bullough Foundation, Winchester VA, 2024
The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap GA, 2024
Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro NC, spring 2023; winter 2022, 2023
Gatewood Gallery, Greensboro NC, summer 2023
Drawing Room, Attic 506, Chapel Hill NC, June-October 2021
GRANTS AND AWARDS
North Carolina Arts Council Artist Support Grant, Durham Arts Council, Durham NC, 2025
Penland Winter Residency Fellowship, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville NC, 2025
2024 California Journalism Award: Best Illustration, “Is Uberveillance Coming for Us All?” Zócalo Public Square, March 2024
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT, 2024
Windgate Distinguished Fellowship for Innovation in Craft, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap GA, 2024
Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Carolina–Greensboro NC, 2023
Horn Scholarship, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville NC, 2023
Alexander Julian Prize, Chancellor’s Award for Studio Art, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill NC, 2022
Pearman Research Grant, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill NC, 2022
Salisbury Family Excellence Research Grant, Honors Carolina, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill NC, 2021
UNC Sculpture Garden Honorarium, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill NC, 2021
Smithsonian Teaching Fellow, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2019
INVITED TALKS AND WORKSHOPS LED
The Liberatory Practice of Collage, Workshop, NC Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, 2025
Guest Artist, UNCG School of Art, workshops and artist talk, Greensboro NC, 2025
Artist Talk, Winter Psalms, The Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill NC, 2025
Echo Objects, Artist-Led Tour, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, 2024
Dadabsurdity and Collage, Eno River Arts Mill, Hillsborough NC, 2024
Witch Books, Collage and Books Workshop, Peter Bullough Foundation, Winchester VA, 2024
Artist Talk, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC, 2024
Spellbook Zine Workshop , Fold Under Pressure Zine Fair, Greensboro NC, 2024
Art and Ritual, Artist Talk, Duke University Department of Art and Art History, Durham NC, 2023
The Language of Line, Artist Talk and Workshop, Summer Arts and Design Intensive, University of North Carolina–Greensboro NC, 2023
Intersection Intervention, Artist Talk and Dialogue, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of North Carolina–Greensboro NC, 2023
Sacred Abstraction, Artist-Led Tour, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, 2022
Materiality, Artist-Led Tour, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, 2022
Experimental Mark-Making Workshop, Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2022
Monster Drawing Rally, invited artist, NC Museum of Art, 2022
Icons for a New World, Artist Talk, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, NC, 2022
Drawing Inconclusions, Artist Talk, Coffee High School Art Department, Douglas GA, 2021
Momentum, Artist talk and facilitated discussion, Drawing Room NC (online), 2020
Teaching and Practicing Empathy Through the Arts, Educator Workshop, Peaceful Schools NC, Chapel Hill NC, 2019
PUBLICATIONS
Assembla Magazine, Issue 2, pp. 98-101; 2025
Pearl Press, Issue No. 21: Self-Portrait 2, p. 8, “there was a bird,” 2024
I LIKE YOUR WORK, Winter Exhibition catalog, p. 14, “Pantheon,” 2023
WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Encaustic Collagraph with Jeff Hirst, McColl Center, Charlotte NC, 2025
AI and Equity with Siobahn Day Grady and Kelley O’Brien, Duke DAHVC Lab, Durham NC, 2024
Books & Enclosures 2 weeks with Andy Rottner, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville NC, 2024
Monotype Workshop 3 days with Jeffrey Hirst, McColl Center, Charlotte NC, 2024
Contemporary Art Seminar with Studio Visits, SOMA, Mexico DF, Mexico, 2023
Decentering the Human with Travis Neel, Small School Raleigh, Raleigh NC, 2023
Letterpress 2 weeks with Ingrid Ankerson, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville NC, 2023
Large-Scale Woodcut, Big Ink, ArtSpace, Raleigh NC, 2023
Storytelling Workshop with Monique Davis, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC, 2023
Relief Printing with Raj Bunnag, Super G Print Lab!, Durham NC, 2023
Object as Vessel with Jean Gray Mohs, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro NC, 2023
Suminagashi with Sheryl Oppenheimer (online), Center for Book Arts, New York NY, 2022
Pochoir Printing with Beth Sheehan (online), Center for Book Arts, New York NY, 2022
Introduction to Welding, Liberty Arts, Durham NC, 2021
TEACHING
Faculty, Sculpture, Summer Arts and Design Intensive, University of North Carolina–Greensboro NC, 2025
Instructor, Design Foundations, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina-Greensboro NC, 2023-2024
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina-Greensboro NC, 2022-2023 Courses: Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Survey of Global Art History
Wood Shop Assistant, Gatewood Building, School of Art, University of North Carolina–Greensboro NC, 2022-2024. Provided undergraduate and graduate art and design students with support for tool operation and solving design problems, monitored shop safety, helped maintain tools and shop
Visual and Performing Arts Teacher, Central Park School, Durham NC, 2013-2020. Courses: Visual Art, General Music, Theater, Chorus
Institutional Service: Arts Curriculum Director, Staff Development Coordinator, Project-Based Learning Coach, Team Leader, Mentorship Program Leader, New Faculty Mentor, After-School Program Director, Hiring Committees, Administrative Advisory Team (2013-2020)
Director of Performing Arts and Arts Teacher, Duke School, Durham NC, 2000-2010. Courses: Music, Theater, Chorus, New Media and Technology, Outdoor Education
Institutional Service: Curriculum Designer, Arts Integration Specialist, Special Programs Coordinator, Summer Camp Director, Hiring Committees, Administrative Advisory Team, Soccer Coach, Theater Director, New Teacher Mentor, Professional Development Workshop Leader, Low Ropes Course Designer and Construction Lead
Summer Teacher Institute. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2018 & 2019
Summer Educator Institute, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia PA, 2019
PBLWorld, International Project-Based Learning Conference, Napa Valley CA, 2019
Various Teaching Positions, 1990-2000, Emerson Waldorf School, Triangle Day School, Greenbriar Academy, Farm & Wilderness Camps, Kidstunes, Community Cuisine–Chapel Hill
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