Seitu Jones

Seitu Jones (born 1951, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer known for his large-scale public artworks and environmental design.

[2][3] Jones is retired from the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Arts MFA program at Goddard College, Port Townsend, Washington and lives and works in St. Paul, Minnesota.

According to Jones due to discrimination and widespread racism, his father gave up on art as a career instead of running a print shop from his home.

Suspended in the center of the Nashville Farmers' Market atrium, the large scale public art piece depicts a massive basket of spilled greens.

[8] Jones has collaborated in a number of projects with Ta-coumba T. Aiken, including a project entitled "Shadows of Spirit" (1992), a series of sculptures in the form of human silhouettes cast in bronze and embedded in the Nicollet Mall wide sidewalks with poetry by Rosemary Soyini Vinelle Guyton is inscribed on each shadow.