Mary Jones makes mixed media artworks about urban walking. Images are collaged from drawings, writing, and ephemera gathered on walks taken in cities and towns of all sizes. Often works are dominated by a central figure personifying the journey taken with its mix of memories, dreams, hesitation and resolve. Her quirky hand results from a belief that drawing is as personal as handwriting. Jones has an MFA in printmaking from Indiana University Bloomington and a BFA in Art History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For 15 years, she was Professor of Art & Design at Grand View University in Des Moines, where she taught courses in printmaking, book arts, and graphic design. Prior to teaching, she worked as an illustrator in Chicago. She has work in the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Women in the Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and in the State Museum of Illinois in both Chicago and Springfield. She has been an artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation and at Anchor Graphics, Chicago. She is a 2018 Iowa Arts Council Fellow and was named a notable artist in New American Paintings, #143, Midwest Edition.