Born 1982 in Michigan. Unremarkable. Attended Michigan State University and BFA in Painting from RMCAD 2006. My art is conceived in many different ways. As a result, it has no singular ambition. 20-time Guinness World Record applicant. Sometimes I turn things inside-out and will now and then nail a balloon to the wall. As a boy, I spent countless nights as a lighthouse attendant off the Nova Scotian coast. During these long, foggy, pensive nights, I felt nothing.
My art is often the product of the dissapointment I felt.

I was also Time magazine's 2006 Person of the Year. As well as 7 time Newbery Award winning reader (1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993, 2002...respectively... Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Missing May by Cynthia Rylant, A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park. Once shook Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's hand.