Fay Jones

Fay Jones earned her Bachelor of Fine Art from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1957. During her extensive and prolific career she has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, been artist-in-residence at Pilchuck Glass School, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and the La Napoule Art Foundation, France and participated in both solo and group exhibitions across the Northwest. The Boise Art Museum organized a major retrospective exhibition in 1996 followed by a second in 2007 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon.

Her works can be found in numerous public and private collections in the Northwest and include public commissions such as the monumental mural for the Westlake Transit Station in downtown Seattle. In 2005 she received the Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement from Artist Trust in Seattle.