LAURETTA JONES - Lauretta Jones is an artist inspired by the botanical world. Her garden holds many of the specimens portrayed in her work. She received a BFA from Cleveland Institute of Art, worked in NYC as an illustrator and designer and was an early pioneer of the computer as an artist’s tool. Jones exhibits her work widely including solo shows at Wave Hill and the Cleveland Botanical Garden and is represented in the presti- gious collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. She is treasurer and web designer for the Somers Land Trust. Jones has taught at the the New York Botanical Garden, School of Visual Arts, Manhattanville College, and Western Connecticut State University.