Meet JD

 JD goes on to say, “After apologizing to all of my buddies in the art class, I asked my teacher, 'How in the world did I win?'
She told me it was because my work was unique. I began to wonder whether I should dive into art, but my Dad said there was no money in art and I should go into something else. So, I buried my gift for fifty years and focused on music education, publishing, producing and then on to create a best-selling children's book." 

“It was not until 2014 that I painted my next musical instrument. I was not trying to prove anything, but I just wanted to paint. After painting on a few canvases, some friends encouraged me to take them to a gallery.   
I had two offers from galleries. One wanted do a private show. They wanted 13 paintings of mine in four months to open at the gallery."

Since then, JD has painted hundreds of paintings using his unique style in the medium of acrylic on canvas. They can be seen in prestigious corporate offices and homes throughout the US. He has been published is a number of art magazines., including, Nashville Arts Magazine, Art Galleries of the South, and Franklin Lifestyle. 

In 2023, JD was the artist chosen to design the classrooms and hallways at the College of Music and Performing Arts, Belmont University, Nashville. The first installation consisted of eleven pieces.

JD Wise

JD Wise was born in Miami, and grew up during the "glory years" of south Florida, where you could feel the warm ocean breeze against your face everyday while adventuring through a backdrop of Art Deco and Spanish architecture unlike any other.

It was a time and place where you could stumble into Jackie Gleason or Frank Sinatra.  JD grew up in the part of Miami where Desi and Lucy were his neighbors!

In High School, JD was exposed to world class operas, and musicals, played trumpet in the Orange Bowl, and played professionally in a Salsa Band. He was surrounded by greatness but never took it for granted, even as a child.

JD Wise’s art combines his Miami roots with his love for music.

"The first real painting I did was of a trumpet. It was the instrument I played so it just flowed out of me. There were so many great and talented artists around me that I never imagined mine would amount to anything. But, in my senior year of high school my art teacher entered that painting into the prestigious Scholastic Art Award Contest, and after a month she came and told me I had won the category of "Modern Art" for the  state of Florida. My piece went on to New York.”