Designer and letterpress printer of a miscellany of printed matter from poster/show bills, music packaging and broadsides to wood and linoleum block cuts as well as collagraphs, monoprints and etchings. Native North Carolinian, drummer, proponent of African coffee (the button on the man's shirt in the print, "Brother Dawud," says "Coffee is my drug.") and Tennessee whisky, and graduate of North Carolina State University's School of Design.