Anthony Jones, currently director of the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland, has been appointed president of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He succeeds Roger Gilmore, who has served as acting president since the departure of Neil J. Hoffman last summer. The appointment will be effective in June.
A native of Wales, Jones, whose age is early 40s, was a teacher at the Glasgow School from 1969 to 1971. He then became an instructor and the chairman of the art department at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Tex. He returned to Glasgow to assume the directorship of the school in 1980. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Wales and has organized the definitive exhibition and catalogue on Welsh ecclesiastical architecture. He also has remained a practicing artist, currently as a painter but with a strong background in sculpture.
In recent years Jones has been a guest lecturer at more than 50 American colleges and museums on the work of Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. He lectured at the School of the Art Institute last fall.
Jones received a bachelor of arts degree from Newport College of Art in Wales and a master of fine arts from Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was a Fulbright scholar.
