JANUARY 2017 – PRESENT

Self Employed Artpreneur – Artist, Author, and Advocate

• Business owner of Artist Expressions by Justin K Valenti
• Artist specializing in fluid art and digital art
• Advocate for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• Published author and illustrator of 7 books
• Manages and maintains website and art shop www.jkvalenti2014.com

JANUARY 2017 – PRESENT

VisAbility Art Lab  – Artist

• Creates and exhibits fluid paintings, digital art and art in other mediums

Awards, Advocacy and Leadership

2025 – Artists and Scholars Project Grant from the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (AHCMC)

2025 – Arts and Disability Awareness Afternoon: A Celebration of Creativity and Connection, Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC

2025 – Art, Creativity and the Power of Healing, Neurodivergent District (Online Event)

2020 – Present, Board of Directors for the Arc Maryland (Executive Secretary 2025-26)

2023 – Maryland Governor’s Award of Disability Culture

Select Exhibitions and Festivals 

OCT 2025, The Language of Art, Goldman Gallery,  Bender JCC, Rockville, MD

MAY – SEP 2025, Universal Perspectives” Solo Show Main Street Connect, Rockville, MD

SEP 2025, Poolesville Day Festival, Poolesville, MD

AUG 2025, Glen Echo Labor Day Art Show, Glen Echo, MD

JUN/JULY, 2025, Artisan’s Festival, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD

JAN – MAR 2025, VisAbility Art Lab Annual Exhibition, VisArts, Rockville, MD

NOV 29-30, 2024, Bazaart Holiday Fair, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

OCT 25, 2024, The Arc Baltimore’s 23rd Annual Art in the Round, Hunt Valley, MD

OCT 18 – NOV 2024, “Belonging 2024”, Main Street Connect , Rockville, MD

OCT 11 – NOV 16, 2024, Make Studio’s Cordially Invited VI, Baltimore, MD

OCT 5, 2024, Artisan’s Festival, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD

SEP 28, 2024, Rocktobierfest, Visibility Art Lab Booth, Rockville, MD

AUG 6-7, 2024, Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education Summer Institute (MCIE), Annapolis, MD

MAY – AUG 2024, “Unmask: Artists on a Mission to Unmask the Stigma of Mental Illness” Art Space and Montpelier Center for the Arts, VA

MAY 4 – 5, 2024, Rockville Arts Festival, VisAbility Art Lab Booth, Rockville, MD

APR 20, 2024, Amateur Artists Showcase, Casey Community Center, Gaithersburg, MD

FEB 9 – MAR 10, 2024, VisAbility Art Lab Annual Exhibition, Rockville, MD

NOV 25, 2023, Bazaart, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

JAN 11 – FEB 5, 2023, VisAbility Art Lab Annual Exhibition, VisArts, Rockville, MD

FEB 26 – APR 9, 2021, VisAbility Art Lab, VisArts, Rockville, MD

MAR 20 – JUN 7, 2020, Visibility Art Lab, VisArts, Rockville, MD

JAN – MAY 2020, Abstracted, Takoma Park Community Center, Takoma Park, MD

SEP 2019, Art in the Round, The Arc Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

Commissions, Conferences, and Mural Projects

2025 – Fluid Art Commissions for Main Street and Cura Personalis Projectb

2025 – Thermal  Drone Art Commission, MyDrone.Pro

2024 – Disability Rights Conference, Crystal City, VA

2024 – Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education’s Summer Institute, Annapolis, MD

2024 – Note Cards and Auction Items for Gala for Seeking Employment, Equality and Community (SEEC), Silver Spring, MD

2022 – Together We’re Better,Rebuilding Our Inclusive Community Together Contest,  Community Mural, Wheaton, MD, Shine Brighter Together Initiative, Montgomery Parks

Education

2014 – 2025 Montgomery College, Rockville, MD

• Certificate in Information Technology
• Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society

Publications

2025 – Artistic Expressions by JKV’s Second Coloring Book

2024 – Artistic Expressions by JKV Coloring Book

2024 – Drawings by Hand (Early Drawing Book)

2023 – Murals Imagined Book (Picture Book)

2023 – Social Sharks (Children’s Book)

2021 – The Zania Virus (Graphic Novel)

2019 – Meeting The Girl (Romance Novel)

2018 – Blast from the Past (Coffee Table Book)