The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse opens its summer season next week with a staged reading of American Artist, about the life and career of Loïs Mailou Jones, an internationally recognized artist and longtime Vineyard summer resident.
Lois Mailou Jones
2025
1978
August 29, 1978
There is no end to Lois Mailou Jones’ creative resources.
The name itself is poetry. A youthful, energetic 72, Lois Jones is the veteran of a long and fruitful career in the arts. Being black and a woman, her accomplishment is especially significant.
As early as age 14, composer Harry T. Burleigh had advised Lois that if she wished to establish a serious career, she would have to go abroad in order to get full exposer and avoid the disadvantage of being black in the United States.
