(re)FOCUS at the African American Museum in Philadelphia will highlight artist/designer Anna Russell Jones (1902-1995), the first African American graduate of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, (now Moore College of Art and Design). Selections from AAMP's 2020 exhibition Anna Russell Jones: The Art of Design will be back on view in the AAMP's Jack T. Franklin auditorium space.

Anna Russell Jones was known to her contemporaries as a talented artist working in wallpaper and carpet design, as a civil service illustrator, and as a freelance artist. The entirety of Jones' archive of artwork and personal papers and photographs was acquired by AAMP in the early 1990s before the artist’s passing, and was highlighted in a 2020 retrospective exhibition that was truncated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the exhibition, a national resurgence in interest in Jones' life and work led to features in the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, loans of her work to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' Designed by Women exhibition (2023) and the Brooklyn Museum of Art (2024).