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challenges. She laces up her hiking boots and hits the had “° °hi“· I hh V“Y°°h‘h"h*hh hhail
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daypack on her back for extra weight and endurance. learned howlighting impacts a.n environ-
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suddenly appears like magic I-airy dust, and projects on I-our continents. Creating Branded El’1VlY'OhfTl€l’1tS
there is nothing accidental about ]ones’ cre- Her academic preparation began at FOV CllSl’1tS
ative eH:orts. The 1976 graduate I-rom what Sullins College in Bristol, Va., where she This ability to meld the two is even more
is now the University of- Kentucky College earned an associate’s degree in interior de- critical in]ones’ position as head of-
of- Design, has been laying the groundwork sign. Wanting to continue her education, Branded Environments, one of-Hve disci-
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