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Mark Jones

Mark Jones is an architect in Chicago with nearly 40 years of urban sketching experience. Learning and practicing sketching was required in architecture school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where students were encouraged and required to maintain sketchbooks during classes, filling the books with project ideas and designs, sketches, class notes, inspiration and urban sketches. A study abroad program in 1986-1987 based in Versailles, France provided the focus to document his travels and studies through Europe. He has continued the practice of urban sketching since and continue to work on his technique. Mark has exhibited his sketches in several art shows and the shows have inspired him to continue drawing and sketching. He joined Urban Sketchers Chicago in 2014 and has participated or taught at all of the USk Chicago Seminars. He has also led sketching workshops for two not for profit agencies, Mercy Housing and Thresholds. Mark also is active in the EveryOther sketch group.

Exhibitions have included Outside the Practice – Artwork Created by Architects and Designers, Bridgeport Arts Center (2018 and 2019), Rivers Edge exhibit, Chicago Architecture Foundation (2022), Sweet Home Chicago, Bridgeport Arts Center (2023), Ornament Is, Bridgeport Arts Center (2023), Pecha Kucha slide exhibit at Martyrs (2023), Cornelia Arts Building Open House (2024), Burnham Yacht Club (2025).

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Find Mark online at:
Instagram: @markjones4125
Facebook: Mark Jones