Fine artist and designer Julian Victor LaMarr Gaines, better known as Ju Working On Projects, has a unique dual-pronged perspective on sneakers. Before finding success in the art world as a painter whose works are collected by everyone from Rick Ross to The Whitaker Group founder James Whitner, Juwop (as his friends call him) was a South Side Chicago native who attended Northern Michigan University on a partial football scholarship and painted on sneakers -- out of both of necessity and curiosit...
Fine artist and designer Julian Victor LaMarr Gaines, better known as Ju Working On Projects, has a unique dual-pronged perspective on sneakers. Before finding success in the art world as a painter whose works are collected by everyone from Rick Ross to The Whitaker Group founder James Whitner, Juwop (as his friends call him) was a South Side Chicago native who attended Northern Michigan University on a partial football scholarship and painted on sneakers -- out of both of necessity and curiosit...
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