Fay Jones

Fay Jones (born 1936, birth name Fay Bailey) is an American artist, based in Seattle, Washington. A large number of her works are exhibited in public places in the Pacific Northwest, including a mural in the Westlake Station of the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel and a painting in Seattle's opera house, McCaw Hall. A 1986 retrospective organized by the Boise Art Museum also showed at the Seattle Art Museum.

Early life In 1953, she graduated from high school and enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). also showed at the Seattle Art Museum and at the Washington State University Museum of Art in Pullman, Washington.

In 2006, Jones and her husband had a joint show at the Casa Museo Gene Byron in Guanajuato. They maintain a primary residence in West Seattle.

Awards 2013 - Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors grant 2006 - Seattle Art Museum’s Poncho Artist of the Year award 1983 and 1990 - grants from the NEA 1984 - Washington State Arts Commission 1989 - La Napoli Art Foundation