Joe Petro III
American artist
Joe Petro III (born May 3, 1956) is a second-generation fine artist who works as a sculptor in bronze, clay and printmaking on silk-screen and handmade paper. He majored in Zoology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He worked with Kurt Vonnegut Jr in Vonnegut's later years on silk-screen prints of Vonnegut's artwork.
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