Saturday, October 11th
6:30pm - 8:30pm
FREE entry and drinks courtesy of:
Montucky Cold Snacks, Best Day Brewing, and New Balance
Read a little more about them below:
Josh is a true Renaissance man—an award-winning artist, engineer, pilot, and martial artist—driven by deep curiosity and a passion for solving complex problems through diverse perspectives. His global outlook was shaped by three years in Japan and professional stints in Moscow and Korea, fostering strong cultural fluency and international collaboration skills.
He is especially distinguished in Shodō, traditional Japanese calligraphy, with seven exhibitions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art and multiple Japanese awards. His work has also appeared in Seattle galleries.
Beyond art, Josh is a masterful engineer and craftsman, creating knives and apparel by commission. In 2022, he led the engineering behind Austin's No-Comply Skateshop rebuild, drawing on nearly 20 years as a lead design engineer and stress analyst at Boeing, where he also competed as an aerobatic pilot and trained in classical Japanese martial arts.
Now a consultant and entrepreneur, Josh is developing his own aircraft and mentoring leaders alongside the Renaissance Leadership Alliance and Dr. Alfonso Montero, helping organizations navigate engineering innovation and global partnerships.
Matt’s work is a meditative practice—an embrace of presence, imperfection, and process over control or perfection. He creates art using discarded fragments of his brother’s kanji calligraphy, transforming remnants into symbols of ongoing growth and shared journey.
His artwork can be seen adorning the dressing room walls of No-Comply Skateshop, where he was also general contractor for the 2022 rebuild.
For Matt, both calligraphy and swordsmanship are not just disciplines but ways of being—grounded in softness, trust, and stillness. His practice is a quiet rebellion against urgency, rooted instead in returning—again and again—with gentleness.