Hillbilly, Julie Belcher, was born in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1964. While attending high school at the home of the Bluefield Beavers, her art class sold Krispy Kreme doughnuts to finance a field trip to NYC. It was this first exposure to big-city art that sparked her desire to become a graphic designer.
Corporately speaking, Ms. Belcher has served as a designer and art director for numerous Whittle Communications publications, Seventeen Magazine, and Blue Note Records. In 1996, after meeting artist Kevin Bradley the two artists partnered to form Yee-Haw Industries, a letterpress art print shop and creative studio. Belcher began funneling her creative energy and experience into building a letterpress empire.
When not holding down the fort at Yee-Haw, Belcher lectures for academic and commercial institutions and hawks the Yee-Haw wares. Ms. Belcher received her BFA from the University of Tennessee and her MFA from New York's School of Visual Arts. She lives in a bungalow with a horseshoe over the door in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Kevin Bradley was born in Greeneville, Tennessee--land of Davy Crockett--in 1963. Bradley first experimented with printmaking while studying graphic design and painting in the late 80s and early 90s at the University of Tennessee. By engaging methods and principles from all three disciplines, Bradley formed his own, iconic style. At the culmination of his formal education, Bradley concluded painting was the best vehicle for his creative expression; that printing was an ideal means for mass-production; and that the computer was the Devil's Work.
In 1996, Bradley met designer Julie Belcher and the two partnered to establish Yee-Haw Industries, a working letterpress print shop, graphic design and artist studio. Although Bradley makes his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he travels to lecture and judge at institutions and competitions across the country.
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