Artist Information
County
Anne Arundel CountyArtistic Category
Visual Arts
MSAC Individual Artist Award (IAA)
2019Artist Bio
Jeff Huntington aka Jahru (@jahru) is a studio painter and street artist living and working in
Annapolis, Maryland. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 1997) and the Corcoran
School of Art (BFA 1995). Huntington taught painting as an adjunct professor at the Corcoran
School of the Arts & Design/ George Washington University from 2012 until 2016. At this time,
he and his wife and fellow artist, Julia Gibb, founded the nonprofit arts program, Future History
Now (FHN), whereby they create collaborative murals with youth in under-resourced
communities throughout the world. Jahru and FHN murals can be seen in Panama, Brazil,
Colombia, France, Philippines, India, Hawaii, and throughout the continental United States. His
studio work is represented by Porter Advisory in New York City and Reyes+Davis in
Washington D.C.