It's hard to keep Cathe Jones from doodling. When her hands are curled up in a strange dislocated heap, holding a rat, or cuddling a chinchilla, she still manages to scribble crafted drawings onto a nearby scrap of paper. From the time she was five, Cathe has won awards for her art work, and she continues creating using any and all media available to her.

Cathe's art training began during her years as a scholarship student at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Boston youth program. Here she sculpted, painted, and oftentimes invented. Using her portfolio, Jones found herself as an early admitted student in Massachusett's College of Art. Because money was scarce, and she had left high school too early to receive a scholarship, she ended up taking a few semesters off to join the military. Despite her sabbatical, she maintained a painting studio, and during her years as a service member, managed to create enough work to show at galleries in Newport News, Virginia.

MassArt gladly accepted her back into the Interrelated Media program, and she continued her efforts using computers, music, and dance. During her third year there, she met Ed Emshwiller, the noted animation and video artist, who suggested she finish school early and enter California Institute of the Arts under his mentorship. She studied with genius, and animation hero, Jules Engel. And her advisor was equally talented, and magnificent, Christine Panushka.

Soon, her friend and fellow animator, Jen Howard, the most amazing model maker in motion pictures, rescued Cathe from a part-time job serving as Porky Pig at Magic Mountain. Boss Films, the company run by Academy Award Winning effects artist, Richard Edlund, hired her on. She learned on the job, and was able to use the lessons to continue on in work on Clio Award winning commercials, Academy Award winning pictures, and, she even supported effects crews on a variety of projects in Mexico and Canada.

Aside from film and video works, computer animations, and performances, Jones was a featured ice sculptor for Boston's First Night Festivals for several years. Her ice work continued on in shows in Minneapolis, Chicago, and even Orlando, Florida.

Revelation/Transition, an animation that won several independent film awards for writing, served as a portfolio piece that allowed Cathe to work on rock videos and to serve on faculty at New Mexico Highlands University, San Francisco State University, and California State University, Sacramento.