Who is Practice Practice?

Practice Practice is a community-based arts education project co-founded by Isa Rodriguez and Dylan Cale Jones. Working at the intersection of art, creativity, and everyday life, we publish accessible resources for artists to help them build balanced, resilient creative practices.

Practice Practice is born of our experiences. As artists and educators, we are committed to finding solutions to the challenges that artists face—balancing daily life, building meaningful relationships, sustaining community and working toward social transformation while maintaining a creative practice.

Isa Rodriguez

Isa Rodriguez (b. 1989, Albuquerque) is a Queer, Venezuelan American artist based in Oklahoma City. Their interactive projects present creativity as a technology for liberation. 

Rodriguez received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA through a fellowship from Algur H. Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas, Texas.

They have exhibited in galleries and museums locally and internationally, including the Visual Arts Center (Austin, TX), the Mexican American Cultural Center (Austin, TX), the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gimpo, South Korea), and the Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center (Oklahoma City, OK). Past residencies include Ox-Bow (Saugatuck, MI) and SOMA (Mexico City, Mexico).

In 2021, Rodriguez moved to Oklahoma City, where they founded Practice Practice with collaborator, Dylan Cale Jones. In 2023, the team received a Thrive Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation and Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. In 2024 They published their first book, Practice Practice: How to Keep Creating and launched the Practice Practice podcast. 

Rodriguez teaches at Studio School at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, where they are inagural artist in residence for 2025.

Visit their website: isa-be.studio

Dylan Cale Jones

Dylan Cale Jones (b. 1988, Chicago) is an artist and educator living in Oklahoma City. Dylan’s practice focuses on building thoughtful relationships with material and community.

Jones completed their BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. In 2015 they earned their MFA through a funded fellowship at the Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas, Texas. 

Their work has been shown at the Chicago Cultural Center, Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago, IL), the Mission (Chicago, IL), and Galleri Urbane (Dallas, TX). Past residencies include Ox-Bow (Saugatuk, MI), SOMA (Mexico City, Mexico), and Compound Yellow (Oak Park, IL), where they created Observation Devices—an exhibition which included free community workshops encouraging people to engage critically with police surveillance and public space. 

In 2021, Jones moved from Chicago to Oklahoma City, where they co-founded Practice Practice with collaborator Isa Rodriguez. In 2023, Practice Practice received a Thrive Grant from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition and the Andy Warhol Foundation to publish their book, Practice Practice: How to Keep Creating and launch the Practice Practice podcast. 

Jones teaches drawing and sculpture at University of Central Oklahoma and ceramics at Studio School at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center. They are inaugural artist in residence at Studio School for 2025.

Visit their website: dylancalejones.com