Recent Lewis Center for the Arts alumna Azi Jones was one of two Princeton Class of 2025 graduates awarded the Martin A. Dale ’53 Fellowship. Jones shares this honor with fellow graduate Patrick Newcombe ’25, an ecology and evolutionary biology major.
The Dale Fellowship, created by 1953 Princeton alumnus Martin Dale, provides a $40,000 grant to spend a year on “an independent project of extraordinary merit that will widen the recipient’s experience of the world and significantly enhance the student’s personal growth and intellectual development.”
Jones graduated from Princeton in May with a degree in African American studies and a minor in visual arts. She has extensive creative experience as a visual artist, dancer and curator for student organizations, Lewis Center for the Arts’ student-led projects, and professional art organizations in the U.S. and Caribbean.
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Azi Jones presents “None of These Works is Original: In and Of the Green House,” her senior independent work exhibition.
For her Dale project, “LEHWE,” Jones is curating a traveling pop-up exhibit series on Caribbean contemporary art and programming at galleries in the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Jones will travel among the countries to meet artists and visit exhibition sites. Her goal is to hold three editions of the exhibit series featuring a set lineup of emerging artists and a changing rotation of established artists unique to each location.
Among her other honors, Jones has received funding for summer independent work through the Lewis Center’s Sam Hutton Fund for the Arts. She also won this year’s Lewis Center’s Lucas Award in Visual Arts and was recognized by the center for outstanding work her first and sophomore years.
Fourteen Princeton sophomores also received $7,000 Dale Summer Award stipends for smaller projects they will complete over the summer. The 2025 Dale Summer Award recipients are: Ava Adelaja, Alisha Andrade, Georgina Domingo Alsina, Alexandra Gayer, Katherine Hwang, Sam Lee Regan, David Nagley, Connor Odom, Katriona Page, Joseph Roberts, Edith Simecek, Lucia Tsurumaki, Tatyana Wabwire and Isabel Yates.
Read the full story by Rebekah Schroeder through Princeton University news.
