MoreThanAnArtist

Willie James Jeter was born on May 7, 1982 in a small town in rural South Carolina. At the young age of 7, Willie found himself in foster care where he bounced around from foster home to foster home with his four sisters. While you’d think that all this adversity would leave Willie feeling as though he had no real roots… it instead inspired him to be the kind of person who created their own.

 

Despite the negativity that threatened to label him a statistic and his struggles with Epilepsy, Willie knew he was a God-original and that alone defined him. That alone gave him roots and the courage to branch out on his own, moving to Georgia to study at The Art Institute of Atlanta entirely on his own, aside from the love of four amazing sisters who stood by him through thick and thin. Read More