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and at the age of 5, realized that his life would be the life of an artist. His
artistic abilities were noted while he was in kindergarten, and later his
teachers would encourage him in his artistic abilities. During his Summer
vacation after the 7th grade, at Immaculate Conception school, he had a job
at a place named Mazzolini Artcraft, as a sprayer of religious statues. It was
a place which sold them to religious stores and Catholic schools.
He had begun his Catholic education at the age of 11 at a school
named Saint Agnes, then he went to Immaculate Conception, and then
to high school at Holy Name High School. Jim felt that this religious
information was very useful to him, and it is still useful to him, even though
he has now accepted atheism as his present day reality.
Spagg won a second prize in the National Safety poster contest
while at Holy Name, and he later worked at an art studio and various print
shops in the Cleveland area, at one point he was Art Director for a firm which
printed soda pop labels for independent bottlers.
After two years in the United States Marines, Jim worked at an
assortment of jobs, such as factories, sales work, cab driving, and others.
He felt that this was important to his being an artist, as he felt an artist is a
person who expressed himself, and it was important to experience life from
many viewpoints.
Jim has done well over 300 works of art and has done sculpture, poetry
songwriting and writing also. He has had his work exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art, one of he 3 best museums in the country. He has also exhibited in the Akron, Canton and Massillon museums of art. One of his masterpieces is his proposed new religion, originally named "The World New Religion" which he late change to "Humanity School of Understanding". HSU has 7 ideas which cover all the problems of mankind.
Now, his latest art form is public access television, where he produces
shows, most of which have explicit nudity, so-called "dirty language" and
proclaim two ideas. One idea is that "Nudity is NOT Dirty!" and the other is
that " People are TOO busy and TOO serious!".
