MEG
Artwork
Dr. Megan “Meg Jo” Jordan, PhD is a social science researcher and artist based in Nashville, TN and Columbus, OH. She conducts research and creates art to make complex topics more accessible with the aim of bridging social divides. Meg’s use of colors provides an intersectional lens of interconnected fates across race, class, gender, sexuality, etc. Her plant and cloud imagery serve to remind her audience that we are of nature and in relationship with nature—a relationship in need of improvement. Meg's work takes a hopeful approach depicting ‘people power’ and our ability for change. Meg's overall work is principled in social accessibility—meeting people where they are.
Meg has been commissioned and featured by the following organizations: United Nations (COP27), Nashville International Airport (BNA), National Museum of African American Music, Black Lives Matter, Planned Parenthood of Tennessee, Workers’ Dignity, PolicyLink (Oakland, CA), The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt Climate Change Initiative, and various other organizations to make and show artwork that responds to this precarious time period we find ourselves in. Dr. Jordan is a 2021 national award-winning artist of the Tanne Foundation and a 2022 fellow of the Nashville Soho House Creative Futures Collective Program. Dr. Jordan is also a Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar at The Ohio State University in the Arts Administration, Education, and Policy department, where she is also a W. K. Kellogg research fellow of diversity and equity.
Exhibitions
currently on view:
November 9, 2023 - Present
We're All Humans
Bongo East
Nashville, TN
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past:
November 2023
Connecting the Dots
Nashville Design Week
Nashville, TN
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October 2023
Creative Connections: Resilience, Innovation, & Community After COVID-19*
Urban Arts Space
Columbus Ohio
(*curator*)
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October 2023
Community Safety
American Institutes for Research
Nashville, TN
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March - October 2023
Artists of the Armory
Advent Headquarters
Nashville, TN
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August 2023
Black Arts Bash
Cheekwood Gardens and Estate
Nashville, TN
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January 2023- July 2023
Identity Crisis: Who Are We Becoming?
BNA Nashville International Airport, Arts at the Airport, Flying Solo Exhibition, TN Craft Group Show
Nashville, TN
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May 2023
June Group Show
Gallery 83, Brothers Drake
Columbus, OH
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February 2023
Signs of Love
The John P Holt Brentwood Library. Solo Exhibition
Brentwood, TN
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February 2023
Taste of Things to Come
group show, Red 225 Gallery
The Packing Plant, Nashville, TN
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September 2022 - July 2023
35th Anniversary Exhibit
Woodcuts Gallery, Nashville, TN
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November 2022
United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27)
featured artist in United States Center Art Exhibit
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
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July 2021-December 2022
Art of Healing Exposition
Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, & Public Policy
featuring works from W.H.O. Art to Act for Health
Nashville, TN
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June 2022-November 2022
Care
duo show with Jesse Hofner
Bongo Java, Nashville, TN
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September 2022
35th Anniversary Exhibit
Woodcuts Gallery, Nashville, TN
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September 2022
Cross Country
National Museum of African American Music, Nashville, TN
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September 2022
Soho House X Creative Futures Collective Showcase
Soho House, Nashville, TN
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June 2022
Walk to Freedom. Muralist Co-lead for the Promise Land Heritage Association’s 22nd Annual Music & Arts Festival.
June 2022
Artist-in-Residence. Womanist Ethnography: Research & Activism, Conference. Vanderbilt Divinity School, Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN.
March 2022
Ripple.
Artist assistant to sculpturer-artist, Herb Williams, for a public art installation. Commissioned by the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport located permanently in Concourse D. Atlanta, GA
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February 2022
Art & Jazz
Vanderbilt University, Sarratt Gallery, Nashville, TN
December 2021
Love Notes to Abortion
Planned Parenthood Pop-up Gallery, Nashville, TN
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August 2021 - September 2021
Art of Craft
Centennial Arts Center, Nashville, TN
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August 2021 - October 2021
Vignettes
Fido, Nashville, TN
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April 2021
Solidarity & Power
Lead Artist, community mural
Sponsored by Workers’ Dignity, Black Nashville Assembly, Nashville People’s Budget Coalition, PATHE Nashville, The Frontline, and Unemployed Workers United. Nashville, TN
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April 2021
For the Children
Black Lives Matter Nashville, Black 3rd Space, Nashville, TN
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February 12-13, 2021
Radical Imagination
Salon de Idaho (pop-up anti-gentrification gallery)
Nashville, TN
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October 17, 2020
Black Lives Matter Street Mural
Lead Artist Team, Community Mural
Nashville, TN
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September 2020
Go to the Ground
Black Lives Matter Nashville, Black 3rd Space
Nashville, TN
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July - October 2019
When Private Meets Public
Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
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August 2019
Breaking the Data Jar
PolicyLink, Oakland, CA
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June 2018
We, too, are America
Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN