Jozef sumichrast biography

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Jozef Sumichrast

Born July 26,1948, one of three children in Hobart, Indiana. Son of Joseph and Stella Sumichrast. Brother to Donna Roti and Robert Sumichrast. Jozef worked in several jobs in high school, one of them in a Jewel grocery store. While in high school, Joe met a teacher who turned him onto perspective drawing. This teacher had his students work on drawings for his own home. Jozef was impacted by the intersecting lines of blueprints. He used this information when he started illustrating in advertising.

Jozef took college classes at Indiana University Northwest. Next was entrance into the American Academy of Art to become what was called back then a “commercial” artist. To pay for his tuition, he worked at U.S. Steel in Gary, Indiana. He took a chemistry test and was put into metallurgy where the “ingredients” of the metal had to be perfect to make the best steel. The pay was 2 times over base pay on Sunda Jozef sumichrast alphabet.