Scene & Word Limited is a private non-profit company with charitable aims. It was set up in 2006 by family and friends of Jonah Jones (1919–2004) to develop and manage Cofio Jonah Jones, a project to celebrate and record Jonah’s life and career and keep alive the values he stood for as an artist and educator.
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The Cofio Jonah Jones project has the following aims:
To save public artworks by Jonah Jones endangered by new development plans.
To conserve publicly and privately owned work by Jonah Jones that is in poor condition, for whatever reason.
To publish our own list of books, watercolour prints, digital content and any other media by and about Jonah Jones.
To create content for publishers, broadcasters and any others who commission books, films, broadcasts, lectures etc. about Jonah Jones.
To talk publicly about Jonah Jones when invited by promoters of talks, TV or radio broadcasters, etc.
To support and cooperate with any art gallery organising an exhibition of work by Jonah Jones.
To collect and donate materials to the Jonah Jones archive at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
To develop and sustain a bilingual public Scene & Word website and social media pages.
To build a comprehensive and interactive online gallery of all known sculpture, glass, paintings, inscriptions, mosaics and other media by Jonah Jones.
To increase awareness of Jonah Jones and his work among the younger generation by establishing an art bursary or prize in his name.
