John Wooldridge

BIO

John Wooldridge is a native Arkansan with deep roots in the Ozark Mountains. He spent many hours of his formative years drawing and roaming on his family’s 200 acre cattle farm. Wooldridge indulged a love of art and a desire to learn to paint as a very young teen by taking his only lessons in a local atelier-like setting. Aside from these lessons and the odd workshop now and then, he is self-taught. After receiving a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arkansas, Wooldridge moved his young family to the suburbs of Washington D.C. to pursue a career with NASA. He designed, built, and operated systems in orbit around Earth and on the surface of Mars.