Ron jones cause of death
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Photo by Christian Pease
Ron Jones lives in San Francisco. He and his wife Deanna share their Haight Ashbury home with grandchildren, lots of books and a peaceful garden. When not writing or performing on stage, Ron enjoys teaching poetry with the mentally disabled and coaching his granddaughters CYO basketball team. Ron is retired after working 30 years as a teacher at the San Francisco Recreation Center for the Handicapped (now the Janet Pomeroy Center).
Fired from teaching at Cubberley High School and subsequent jobs directing alternative schools at Stanford University and Mt. Zion Psychiatric Hospital, Ron found an accepting home at the Janet Pomeroy Center. Teaching the physically and mentally disabled in theater and sports, his programs empowered the disabled to speak for themselves. He provided the disabled with a celebrated place in the community from which they were previously excluded. This work became the subject of books, film and television presentations that taught us all – ‘there are more ways to win than coming in first.’
Recently Ron has taken the stage as a
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Photo by Christian Pease
Ron Jones is a native San Franciscan. He shares his Haight Ashbury home with his wife, grandchildren, and a peaceful garden. He is a graduate of Stanford University masters degree program in education. Upon retirement from the Janet Pomeroy Center, where he taught theater and sports to the physically and mentally disabled for 30 years, he now enjoys writing and performing as a spoken word artist.
As an author he has written about everyday heroes that enrich our life. Three of his stories The Acorn People, The Wave, and B-Ball have been made into television specials garnering an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Peabody for their producers. A book entitled Kids Called Crazy was nominated for a Pulitzer. And Say Ray the story of a disabled man abducted to Mexico was honored as the American Book of the Year. His classroom experiment in Fascism, The Wave has been produced as a feature film Die Welle and documentary Lesson Plan. The novelized version of The Wave, available through Random House, is printed in 23 languages and required reading
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Ronald Jones (interdisciplinarian)
American artist, critic, and educator
Ronald Jones (July 8, 1952 – August 9, 2019) was an American artist, critic and educator who gained prominence in New York City during the mid-1980s. In the magazine Contemporary, Brandon Labelle wrote: "Working as an artist, writer, curator, professor, lecturer and critic over the last 20 years, Jones is a self-styled Conceptualist,[1] spanning the worlds of academia and art, opera and garden design, and acting as paternal spearhead of contemporary critical practice. Explorative and provocative, Jones creates work that demands attention that is both perceptual and political."[2] Labelle positions Jones along the leading edge of a "contemporary critical practice" that is perhaps best described as interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary.[3]
1980s
Jones graduated in 1974, with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Montgomery, Alabama's Huntingdon College. He completed an MFA degree in sculpture from the University of South Carolina, followed by a Ph.D. in interdisciplinar
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