Scott Wesley Jones was born in 1958 in Waterloo, Iowa. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education from the University of Northern Iowa in 1986.
He obtained a Master's Degree in Art Education in 1994 from Northern Arizona University. He has taught in the Crane Elementary School District in Yuma, Arizona since 1988, first as an elementary art specialist for 14 years, then as a Language Arts teacher for five. Jones also taught painting and drawing classes at Arizona Western College from 1990-1996. He has shown his work in a variety of juried group and solo exhibitions in Iowa, Arizona and California since 1983.
He currently teaches art at Centennial Middle School in Yuma.