Ann Jones-Weinstock
Middlebury, VT
Ann Jones-Weinstock is a mixed-media artist, using paper and found materials to explore the layered lives of ordinary things. She lives in Vermont.
MessageAnn’s Background
Ann Jones-Weinstock is a mixed-media artist living in Middlebury, Vermont. She is married to a poet and is the mother of two sons.
Raised in Ohio, Ann was inspired by her father, a master woodworker and multigenerational Vermonter, and her mother, a visual artist working in pencil and watercolor. As a teenager, she studied art history at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where her enduring love of art took root. She holds a liberal arts degree from Middlebury College and a master’s degree in communications from Boston University. In her early career, Ann worked at small creative firms doing writing, multi-image production, and graphic paste-up, honing skills she’d later use in her art.
Ann’s art explores the evolving life and transformation of ordinary things. Working primarily with paper, natural, and found materials, Ann assembles sculptures that juxtapose shape, texture, and negative space. She creates images of trees by taping down sticks and applying layers of spray paint around them. Her cut-paper pieces draw on elements of the natural world, such as leaves, flowers, seed pods, and shells, and the Vermont landscape.
Ann began showing her art publicly in 2024. Her work is installed at the University of Vermont Medical Center as part of their permanent collection and has been shown in multiple exhibitions nationally.
Exhibition Highlights:
- Jackson Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont: Four Friends group show, April 2026
- Phoenix Gallery, Waterbury, Vermont: Mosaic—All We Can Hold, April 2026
- The Studio Door, San Diego, California: The Crow Show 2025 and The Crow Show 2026
- Verum Ultimum, Portland, Oregon: Chasing Ghosts 9, 2025
- View Art Center in Old Forge, New York: Look Up: Denizens of the Sky, 2025
- WomensWork.Art, Poughkeepsie, New York: The Last Breath: Death and Contemporary Art, 2024
- Naturalist Gallery, online: Absurd, 2025
Statement
I pick things up from the ground. I always have. I’m drawn to the overlooked or abandoned, the things tangled in underbrush or tossed aside. When I walk alone in the woods, at the shore, or in my neighborhood, my eyes are often cast down. Fallen materials insist on being seen. I double back so often it’s hard to get anywhere fast.
My art begins with materials that have already lived a life. I watch for untold stories and what remains unresolved or unseen. Then I go to my art desk and put pieces together, exploring their new fit. I glue sticks and bark, twist grapevine, shape rusted metal, and cut up Amazon boxes. Natural materials know where they’re going and I try to get out of the way.
In my two-dimensional work, I cut and tear paper, or tape down sticks and spray paint around them. I layer art papers, grocery bags, or shipping cardboard, building depth from what has already served another purpose.
My work often reflects themes of loss and resilience. In 2022, our younger son died. When words suddenly stopped working, my hands took over. Making art became my way to breathe, to move forward, and to heal.
Today, art is how I ask what lasts and what changes, and how what feels lost can take shape again. Art underscores the evolving life of all ordinary and mortal things: what has been, what is, and what is still becoming.
Please note: Ann’s art includes natural and recycled materials that may degrade over time. The variations in texture, color, and form reflect the organic beauty and impermanent nature of the elements.