Joe Valentine

Background: after a youth of privilege, i started to realize that there was something much larger than myself, and that my individualism, my bubble can and should burst. After not getting into art school, I studied art history, anthropology and philosophy in college and graduated with a BA in 2007. I surrounded myself with positive, conscious people, who activated themselves for love, for peace and justice and for the environment. I went though a year of chemotherapy in 2006. I've worked in the food business for over half a decade, selling groceries, creating vibrancy, positivity and eternal optimism in the marketplace. My independent academics of late focus on grid systems in graphic design, visual culture and the defiance of authority in graffiti, the collective color unconscious.

Interests: 1. to get all my friends in one place for a large party sooner than later. 2. to have a massive anti-collective art collective and studio space in a central city hub. 3. to make enough money to but my family a large plot of land in the hills.

Goals: grocer. producer/dj. painter. doing the right thing-er. driving fast; like 130.