Bowker Biography:
Joell Jones

Joell Jones is an exhibiting artist with her studio in Oakland, California. She cofounded the Fort Creativity Center (FCC) in 2002 to inspire and showcase creativity in the San Francisco East Bay area. Born in Ruston, Louisiana, Jones received her BA from Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, and her MA front JFK University in Orinda, California. She worked with psychiatric out-patients in East and Central Oakland for thirteen years, as an art and verbal therapist. She studied painting with Michelle Cassou; and was given her first solo show by dancer, Jane Brown. Joell married Will Wright in 1984 and has a daughter, Cassidy.

Will Wright is cofounder of Maxis Software Company in Emeryville, California, and designer of the computer games SimCity, The Sims, and Spore. Wright was given a "Lifetime Achievement Award" at the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2001. He has been informally photographing at Fripp Island since 1999.

Cassidy Wright, has been involved in art exhibits with Joell, and in the inventor sport of Robot Wars with Will, since she was eight years old. In 2004 she entered the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, to investigate her interests in a variety of media. She has been photographing at Fripp Island since 2000.

Fripp Island is located off the coast of South Carolina, but the beautiful color reproductions and personal musing in Mirror Lake: Images of the Fripp Island Habitat mirror an enjoyment of any coastal setting for all who turn its pages.

 

 

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