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Rush Whitacre

Born February 20th 1979 in Marietta Ohio to parents Dr. Victor C. Whitacre and Penelope R. Warren at Marietta Hospital. Rush Currently lives in Beverly Ohio and is teaching art at the Community College known as Washington State in Marietta. Rush is an artist who creates large works, some of his more notable pieces are those from his painting series "LifeCycle", and his large installations of found objects and room worlds. In Rush's words, "My decision to drop out of the race to be a doctor can be summed up by my art professor, Daniel McMannis..”If you take this class seriously, do all the assignments as I give them to you and correct your mistakes with the advice that I give you, your vision of the world will change forever.” I was smug and let out a little laugh which grabbed his attention.  one day in the fifth week of that quarter I found myself walking outside staring at shadows and the dark sides of trees and anything and everything around me with new eyes.  My vision, my life was changed forever and I knew that I would never be the same.  I have always been an artist, and I have always been creative, always building and always making, but it wasn’t until my first art class that I knew without a doubt that being an artist was what I always have been and what I always will be." Along with being an artist Rush is also an actor in Indy films and an Author of a handful of books. In the Summer of 2010 Rush attempted to create his first full length feature film, "The Lost Marietta", but fell short due to time constraints and conflict among the main characters. Also in 2010, while attending the University of Cincinnati where he received his Masters degree in Fine Arts, Rush had a dream that led him down the path writing and then publishing his first book; "Dear Taylor Swift, A Year in the Life of the Artist, Rush Whitacre, Through his Letters".

After graduating with his MFA, Rush moved to New York where he worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While working at the Metropolitan Museum Rush wrote his second book, "Metropurgatory, Enter the Zombie Jesus". Rush wrote this book while on the floors of the Museum walking around as a security officer by using his phone to send himself emails and then later copy and paste his writing to a word document. This book was only available for a short time before Rush realized that he needed to edit the book further to fix plot holes. In 2012 Rush moved back to Beverly Ohio to help take care of his father, Dr. Whitacre, and to attempt to start a career in teaching. With teaching jobs scarce Rush spent his time sitting in the local Mcdonalds working on his long time work in progress fantasy Novel; "Mabast". Mabast was published in early 2014. When teaching fell through Rush fell into helping out in the small time Indy film industry around the Mid-Ohio Valley and landed a small part in the movie remake of the original 1932 White Zombie as Bruno Delacourte, everyones favorite bar patron and bouncer.

After "White Zombie" Rush Whitacre's talents as an actor were noticed by the Director and Karoke DJ Larry Parmiter and Rush then took on the Lead Male role in Larry's movie; "The Axeman of Henderson County" as the Sherif, -Jake Genevise-.

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