Deborah Jones

Founder
Deb founded the Wyly Community Art Center in 1996 at which time she became Executive Director of the organization. In 2008 Deb became Program Director of the Wyly to focus on designing and expanding the public registration classes, partnership and volunteer programs and community events. Deb moved to the Roaring Fork Valley in 1973 after co-founding and directing the Graphic Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts. She designed and instructed the Aspen Community School art program for kindergarten through 8th grades from 1973-1993. She has served on the Aspen Education Research Foundation Board and the Aspen Snowmass Arts Education Committee.

Deb received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston where she was a co-founder and artist for the Graphic Workshop. She has lived and taught art in the valley for 38 years. Deborah’s mixed media art transforms found images integrated with painting and drawing into collage pieces that are a response to a variety of life themes; memory, contradiction, ambiguity, documentation, discovery, and wonder. Her work is as informed by her own personal narrative and history as it is by the tradition of graphic design, drawing, painting and visual journaling. Deborah’s art has been exhibited locally and nationally. She currently lives and works in Basalt, Colorado. www.deborahjonesart.com