Stephen Wiggins grew up in Lexington, Kentucky where, according to his mom, he started drawing from the tender young age of two and hasn’t stopped since. He attended art classes in the summer of his first grade at the University of Kentucky, as well as classes at the Living Arts and Science center throughout middle school. He was accepted into the School for Creative and Performing Arts in 1995, where the focus of his studies was mainly drawing, pottery, mixed media and painting and upon graduating, attended Berea College and chose Visual Arts program as his major. After transferring to the University of Kentucky in the fall of 2002 he continued with his art studies mainly focusing on printmaking in the forms of stone lithography and silkscreen. In 2004 Stephen took a class in Mixed Media taught by Arturo Sandoval. One of the visiting professors inspired him to explore the use of staples as pencil lines in drawing compositions. This began an obsession to staple many things from that point on. He graduated in 2005 with his BA show and has continued to show his work in and around the Central Kentucky area. He was accepted into the Bluegrass Printmaker’s Cooperative in 2006 where he focused mainly on linocut and monotype printmaking skills. In the meantime he has done commissioned work for Christian Student Fellowship at the University of Kentucky, Southland Christian Church, Children’s Cancer Association in Portland, Oregon and the Not for sale organization also in Portland. Stephen continues to produce and show his artwork wherever people allow him and believes that art is his passion and a way to express himself. The materials he chooses to use and the way he uses them is a way of processing his own painful experiences and transforming them into ones that he can learn from and to grow.