Education
In 1953, she graduated from high school and enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
In 1953, she graduated from high school and enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
A 1986 retrospective organized by the Boise Art Museum also showed at the Seattle Art Museum. However the family was not wealthy. They had four children, born between 1958 and 1966.
Fay was primarily a homemaker in those years, but managed to set aside some time to make artworks, mainly in small formats.
She had her first exhibit in 1970 at the Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle. Over time they fixed up the house and built a separate outbuilding with studio space.
Jones reputation as an artist grew. In the mid-1980s, she was selected, along with Roger Shimomura and Gene Gentry McMahon to design major murals for the Westlake Station of the new Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel.
A 1996 retrospective organized by the Boise Art Museum also showed at the Seattle Art Museum and at the Washington State University Museum of Art in Pullman, Washington.
They maintain a primary residence in West Seattle.
Jones"s father, Robeson Bailey (1906-1972), taught writing and was an early faculty member of the Middlebury College"s Bread Loaf Writers" Conference.
