| About the 2025 award: $50,000 to support the growth of the Looking Glass platform and its community storytelling initiatives. |
Adrian Jones is an artist, creative technologist and archivist whose practice is shaped by a commitment to those living in society’s margins. Utilizing his formal background in electrical engineering and software development, Adrian's creative work explores the power of speculative imagination and intergenerational storytelling within digital spaces.
In 2021, Adrian began developing Looking Glass, a digital storytelling platform dedicated to honoring the voices, memories and experiences that have shaped Black Pittsburgh. Looking Glass is built on the belief that the practices of remembering and imagining have the power to transform and open new pathways toward healing and collective action.
Adrian’s work has been recognized by Collective Action School, NPR, the Technical.ly Awards and the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s cultural incubator, NEW INC.