FLORISTINE YANCEY-JONES The Blackberry Pickers | Acrylic | 2017

“The Blackberry Pickers is a wonderful, colorful landscape/memory from my Childhood Collections. One of fourteen
paintings in the Childhood Collection, the piece reflects my cousins and I picking blackberries on a hot summer day
in rural Virginia. The painting relates to the theme, ‘nature as a problem solver. The problem: my grandmother and
older family members wanted blackberries to make delicious pies, cobblers, jams, and jellies. The solution: the children
will pick the berries that are provided by nature. Problem solved!“
-Floristine Yancey-Jones

Since a child Floristine Yancey-Jones has loved to create and design. In 1973 she published her first book of poetry titled,
A Black Woman’s Soul. As a former teacher for Greater Columbus Arts Council Artists-in-School program, Yancey-Jones developed
syllabi in five disciplines in which she taught Visual Arts, Clothes Design, Poetry, and Line Art, from kindergarten through
college throughout the state of Ohio. She also holds twenty-two Copyrights and one Trademark. In 1988 she began to draw
and in 1989 her work was displayed and sold at the Columbus Museum of Art. In 1990 she began to
paint and in 1991 her work was shown internationally through Ohio Arts Council’s Overseas Foreign Office exhibition program.

Yancey-Jones’ work has been shown on local, as well as national television, and her work has gone into many private
collections. Her work has been in numerous exhibitions and auctions. Yancey-Jones has received awards in her disciplines
including an Accommodation from the Ohio House of Representatives. Yancey-Jones is a former Council Women from the
State of Virginia, twice a part of Virginia History, once a part of Ohio History, and once a part of United States History.
She lectures at different universities and colleges in a multi-discipline of History, Visual Arts, Poetic Readings, and Ethnic
Pluralism. She attended Capital University as a Liberal and Professional Studies and Communications major.