2006
Loïs's painting of Mary McLeod Bethune chosen for cover of winter-spring edition of Black History Bulletin introducing new format. Publisher's statement says, "...The logo illustration is by Loïs Mailou Jones, renowned artist, contemporary of Carter G. Woodson, and a stalwart member of the ASALH. In depicting Ms. Bethune teaching black youth, it signifies the mission of ASALH in general and of the Bulletin in particular...."
2007
Trustee Dr. Chris Chapman publishes Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Color. The book includes never before seen work, biographies, and images of Loïs's contemporaries and African American historical figures which she drew in preparation for the book.
2008
Early Works exhibition presented in museums throughout the country: African-American Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Delta Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC; Featherstone Gallery, Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; and Brenau University Galleries, Gainesville, GA.
2009
Trustees Dr. Chapman and Mr. Jones sign a contract with Pomegranate to publish six of Loïs's paintings to be sold during the exhibition at the Mint Museum: Floral Bouquet, Bouquet, Edgartown Beach, Ville d'Houdain, Sedalia and Paris Rooftops.
Dr. Chapman and Mr. Jones sign a second contract with Pomegranate to publish three of Loïs's cretonnes to be sold for Trust resources: Design for Cretonne 10, 15 and 30.
November: Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color solo retrospective exhibit begins at the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, followed by a national tour at:
2010
Cabris cretonne used for the cover of Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt uses Les Fetiches (1938) and Challenge America (1969) in African American Literature Units 1 & 2 textbooks (Detroit Early Edition).
Blackwell Publishing to use Jeanne, Martiniquaise on front cover of Jarrett/Companion to African American Literature.
September 29: Loïs is honored as an Innovative Trailblazer by Honorable Charles B. Rangel of New York in The House of Representatives on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 and a notice is put into the Congressional Record.
November 3: The Howard University Gallery of Art and the Department of Art present Remembering Loïs: A Birthday Celebration in collaboration with Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
November 4: Journalist Cynthia Gordy writes about Loïs in her essence.com blog, "Amazing art exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. ESSENCE was one of several co-sponsors for the museum's latest, Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, the first major retrospective showing the work of the late Loïs Mailou Jones, an iconic Washington artist and longtime art professor at Howard University."
2011
February: A newly published book, Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945 includes Indian Shops, Gay Head, Massachusetts with this background information: it had been denied entry in the original exhibit, won first prize for landscape under Celine Tabary's name, the Corcoran officially apologized to Loïs, and that she donated it to the museum.
April: HBO requests permission to use Loïs's collage, Vévé Voudou III in an upcoming episode of TREME, the popular television series about post-Katrina New Orleans which has been renewed for a third season.
June: Loïs M. Jones Scholarship Fund at Howard University awarded $44,000 to eight art students during the previous year. The scholarship benefitted two seniors from California and one from South Korea. Recently a non-traditional 43 year-old third year student from Roxbury who focused on Victorian erotica and 17th century alchemy was a scholarship recipient.
December: The Trust donates Babelle, Paris, 1937 to the Contemporary Art Collection of the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C.
2012
February: ABC-CLIO will add Les Fetiches and Peasant Girl, Haiti to the Art Resource image Database for secondary school students.
July: Loïs has 6 works in the exhibit ENDURING LEGACIES: 7 Black Artists at the Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA. The exhibit features 7 artists who continue to leave their mark on African American art and have collectively produced a rich cache of important works. Also shown are works by Elizabeth Catlett, Richard Dempsey, James Denmark, David Driskell, Richard Mayhew and Charly Palmer.
April: Three Loïs' paintings—Self-Portrait, 1940; Moon Masque, 1971; Initiation, Liberia, 1983—are on a national tour titled African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond. This four-year touring exhibition is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. After it's showing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, the exhibition will travel to:
2013
Loïs's painting Ubi Girl from Tai Region, 1972 is included in a new book published by Bedford/St. Martin's Press, Freedom on My Mind: An African American History with Documents, by Deborah Gray White, Mia Bay, and Waldo E. Martin, Jr. The image will also be included in the Chapter 13 timeline. The college textbook will be available in 3 print versions and an online version.
Loïs's painting Sue Bailey Thurman, 1944 is featured on the cover of the book Quicksand by Nella Larsen (DoVeanna S. Fulton, ed.) published by Beadford/St. Martin's/Macmillan Higher Education.
Loïs's painting Mob Victim (Meditation), 1944 is featured on the cover of the book There Must Be a Heaven. March 19-May 18, 2013 by Benny Andrews, published by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
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