Justin Holder

Visual Art – Orlando

I am the product of Mill parents. Both of my parents worked in cotton mills throughout the southeast, so I bounced around from small town to small town until I was nine. We were a poor working class family who thought we were middle class. After my father died when I was nine i floated aimlessly until age 21. Then I played college baseball, discovered Kerouac, switched from an Art major to English, graduated from UF, had my baby girl w my wife, adopted my son from Ethiopia, played house as a stay at home dad for a few years then landed my dream job as an Elementary Art teacher, which I\'ve had for the last six years. In the past year I have finally returned to creating things for myself and now I\'m ready to put myself out there and see what happens.