Jonna McKone, exhibit talk

Skidmore College John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS) Program Storytellers' Institute Presents: Jonna McKone Jonna McKone is a radio producer, documentarian and artist. As a journalist, she has worked on stories ranging from efforts in eastern Kentucky to put former coal mines to economic use to the intersection of youth graffiti culture and galleries in Washington, D.C. Her work has been funded by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and The Journalism Center on Children & Families and The Institute of Museum and Library Services. Her art practice examines concepts of distance - geographic, economic and temporal -- approached through ethnography, archival research, walking, installation and nonfiction filmmaking. She seeks to unravel the nature of memory, labor, gesture and the icons of every day. She is currently at work on a personal film that explores the relationships between memory, artifact and her own familial history. Jonna is a graduate of Bowdoin College and recently received her MFA from Duke University.