[1][4][5] She later pursued a Master of Fine Arts in Independent Film and Digital Imaging at Governors State University while in her early seventies.
[1][2] Jones-Hogu was a member of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), and contributed when they completed the mural Wall of Respect in 1967.
[1] One of her most famous works while involved with the group was "Unite", which has been featured in many exhibitions, including at the Tate Modern in London.
Jones-Hogu said that makers of the documentary wished to ask young "radical" African-Americans about the potential turmoil in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
[2] Prior to becoming involved with AfriCOBRA, she remarked that her works were informed by a largely negative narrative in the context of racial politics.
[2][5] One example is her 1971 screenprint Relate to Your Heritage, which borrows the aesthetics of blacklight and blaxploitation posters but, inverting their typically abusive or trivializing content, depicts black women in royal garb.
[6] She briefly served on the board of the South Side Community Art Center, and was heavily involved with it throughout her life.
[6] An exhibition of the work of afriCOBRA describes Jones-Hogu's individual art style as "fus[ing] political messages, images, and text.
[1][13] Her work has appeared in books, including Creating Their Own Image: The History of African American Women Artists, The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, and Toward a People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement.
Lusenhop Fine Art, of Cleveland, Ohio, represents the Estate of Barbara Jones-Hogu.
[2] Others were not aware of how much work she had produced until the latest years of her life, when she was moved to a nursing home.
Jones-Hogu reportedly told others that she did not produce much work, but many projects of hers were found, and thus they were collected into an exhibition.
[2] A catalog for the exhibition was funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, and will be Jones-Hogu's first monograph.
Exhibitions in which her work featured include Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power exhibition, AfriCOBRA Nation Time, AfriCOBRA Messages to the People, We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, and many more.