Thorncrown Chapel, photograph by Tom Harding
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"Fay Jones architecture begins in order and ends in mystery. His role can perhaps best be understood as a mediator, a human consciousness that has arisen from the Arkansas soil and scoured the cosmos, then spoken through the voices of stone and wood, glass and steel. Art, philosophy, craft, and human aspiration coalesce in his masterworks, transformed from acts of will into harmonies: Jones lets space sing."
So writes Robert Adams Ivy, Jr. in the exhibit essay for "Outside the Pale"—The Architecture of Fay Jones, a magnificent retrospective of the life and work of this disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. "Outside the Pale" was on exhibit at the Old State House between June 1999 and May 2000 and served as the basis for a book by the University of Arkansas Press. The exhibit is now available in a condensed form for use by schools, libraries, and local museums throughout Arkansas. Fay Jones died on August 31, 2004.
The traveling exhibition is contained within eleven crates, with a minimum requirement of 960 square feet of exhibition space. The exhibition includes a video kiosk, two platforms (60"x36" and 36"x32") for a plant stand, a chair, a table designed by Fay Jones, and 3 double-sided panels that are arranged by topic: (1) Intro Panel, History, Photograph of Fay Jones, (2) Design, and (3) Organic.
If your community would like to pay homage to this brilliant native son, contact the Old State House Museum.
See also "Architect Jones of Arkansas Gets Highest Award" from the Spring 1995 issue of the Arkansas News.
Purchase a copy of "Outside the Pale" - The Architecture of Fay Jones.
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