Mark Cole is an emerging artist who was born and raised in Upstate New York, traveled extensively throughout the world, and is now a resident of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with a studio located at the A.F.A.S. Center For The Arts http://www.theafasgroup.com . His art is inspired by his many diverse life experiences from working in impoverished “barrios” (neighborhoods) in third world countries and oppressed communities, to time spent in th ...