Biography: TAWES Born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1954, Tawes was that kid in the back of the classroom who was always caught drawing and getting into trouble for it, though whenever a teacher needed an illustration for a project, they would enlist the talent of Tawes. In seventh grade art class his teacher told Tawes there was nothing he could teach him, but to keep doing what he did and that’s what he would be graded on. In the ninth grade the same art teacher put Tawes in charge of the art room mural project. After leaving high school, Tawes took a job in the art department of the...