Back in October 2024 when I was marketing for the Nature Conservancy grant I received (read more about it here) I was asked to be interviewed by Heart of the East End’s Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM. Ria Rajan and I, both art grant recipients, drove out together to the radio show and enjoyed a segment where we shared about our art practices, and what our workshops would be like.
Christie Jones (b. 1987) is a Patchogue-Medford-based artist whose work merges coastal beauty with climate advocacy. Using mixed media, handmade acrylic, and watercolor made from earth and mineral pigments, she explores environmental themes.
Since 2011, she has run a successful creative business, exhibiting at Guild Hall, MOCA LI, Gallery North, The Other Art Fair Brooklyn (2023), and various Long Island galleries. She received The Nature Conservancy’s 2024 Andy Warhol Visual Arts grant. Returning to college in 2024 after 14 years, she graduated from Suffolk County Community College in Spring 2025 with highest distinction. She will finish undergraduate studies at Stony Brook University in Fall 2025 for Studio Art: Sculpture & Ceramics.
In August and September 2025, she will be an artist-in-residence at The Caumsett Foundation.
