Hey, I'm Ryan. I was born in St. Louis and lived there for the first eight years of my life. My family moved from the city and across Missouri to a little town called Holden, and moved again five years later to Grain Valley which is where I graduated high school. Although art has always been apart of who I am and how i express myself, it has not always been my chosen career path. Before deciding on art i wanted most to be a marine biologist. I have never taken a philosophy class or anything like it really, but i look forward to being in a setting where the exchange of thought and idea is the direction of class and study.