Juse One is my artist moniker; I am a graffiti artist, poet, educator, and filmmaker. Born and raised in Kingston, New York, I discovered an affinity for the arts from early childhood, and have pursued visual arts throughout my life.

In 1998 I discovered graffiti. As I noticed the work left on walls, freight trains, tresses, highway overpasses, and even inside my high school art classroom, a lifelong obsession began to develop. Under the tutelage of Kingston writers Omek and Aktr (then Ader), I became Juse - a moniker that stands for "joyfully unique self expression." This identity developed and progressed as I gained a higher skill level with spraycans and an increased level of education.

In 2008, I graduated with a BA in Media Studies from Hunter College. Focusing on documentary video production, I began to contemplate the possibility of making a film that showed the reality of Hip Hop in places the places where I grew up. By graduation, I completed a 17 minute short film on this subject. By the spring of that year, I began develop that film into a full length documentary film, Beyond Gotham: Hip Hop in Upstate New York. The film sets its sights on the hidden treasure of Upstate Hip Hop by visiting places Albany, Kingston, Rochester, and Syracuse.

See the film in it's entirety here on Vimeo, or on the film's website, beyondgothamthemovie.com

Currently, I am residing in Copenhagen, Denmark. I am a graduate student at the University of Copenhagen in an MA program entitled Cognition and Communication. My upcoming project is "Perker, What?!" a documentary about Hip Hop, urban youth, and racial discrimination in Copenhagen.

Read the synopsis of Perker, Hvad?!? on JuseOne.com: juseone.com/video/perker-hvad/