About The Artist

Hello!

Thank you for making it this far into my website.

I am the artist and owner of Third Wolf.

 

I am from North Jersey, where I grew up and lived for 18 years. I then moved to Colorado when I was 18 in 2008 - for school. I went to school for International Affairs and wound up getting my degree in Political Science from University of Colorado, Boulder in 2012.

 

People ask me ALL of the time at shows where I went to school for art. I mostly did not go to school for art. 

When I was 12 years old I flew across the country with a delegation of kids, no parents (People to People International) in 2002. I went to Australia and New Zealand, China, Poland, Czech Republic, Egypt, Morocco, Italy, Jordan, Mexico and Kenya - by the time I was 20 years old.

The mission statement was Peace Through Understanding. The organization was centered around learning various cultures and connecting with people through our differences and similarities - had a major impact on my life.

 

I had some dramatic things happen in my life a few times, lots of sharp turns. I have always leaned on art - there was a natural talent that I never fully pursued until later.

 

After college I almost went to law school and then jumped instead fully into painting. I took a few art classes at the University of Denver because I needed prerequisites for a few grad school programs I was interested in, but never pursued.

 

Instead decided to do it "my way," so they say. I was showing canvas paintings around different galleries and studios, co ops, etc. I was also selling commission paintings and was trying to figure out how to be an artist full time. I was in my early 20s.

I had my art hanging outside of a yoga studio for one show. A woman left the class and said "these would look cool as yoga pants." 

It struck an idea in my head. I went home and figured it out. In 2015, I taught myself how to create stencils. I wasn't connecting with screen printing. The stencil process felt more straight forward to my brain for some reason. I just leaned in. Or jumped completely off the cliff into this journey.

I started hand painting t-shirts. People really gravitated towards them. I did my first event in June of 2016 - Hanuman Yoga Festival in Boulder, CO. From that point, I have not stopped. Third Wolf has continued to grow, adapt, change, and evolve. I hope it always does.