Artist: Jonh Blanco | Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Artist: Jonh Blanco | Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Chapel Hill, NC
Jonh Blanco is part of the new creative class. Recognized as an Artist, Activist, Curator, Dancer, Educator, Gardener, Imagination Officer, Mentor, Student and Social Entrepreneur. However defined, his contemporary practices are described as critically whimsical, courageous, and authentic. He received his BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. He has served as teaching artist working inside San Francisco’s Youth Correctional Center, naturalist at Cincinnati Nature Center, and master kettle-corn popper for Mama Made It. He migrates by bicycle living nomadically left and right of the North American Continental Divide. Last year he served as imagination officer at Global Breath Yoga Studio, and as an artist in residence, inspiring community amid those with and without developmental disabilities at Reality Ministries. Presently he resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is a first year MFA graduate student.