Rick Jones began his 46-year arts career in Dayton, Ohio at age eight when in 1956, his mother enrolled him in Saturday morning art classes at the Dayton Art Institute. She made sure he rarely missed a Saturday for nearly ten years. Now with a master’s degree in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art Hoffberger School of Painting, he is an exhibited painter, author, and sometimes poet and retired arts administrator. He directed the Fitton Center for Creative Arts in Hamilton, Ohio, for 25 years.

He and his family owned Renaissance Fine Art Supplies & Framing in downtown Hamilton closing in 2023 to move to Arizona. With arts degrees, teaching college art for six years, and a 40-year career running successful arts centers, he, in 1991, was presented the Ohio Governor’s Award for Arts Administration.

Rick and his family moved to Arizona to be close to their four grandchildren.