J.R. ‘Pinky’ Few is the Creative Director for Handsel Art and Advertising and former media coordinator for Tobacco-Free Marion County. A native of Hot Springs, Arkansas his academic education consists of a BA in Philosophy from Hendrix College and graduate work at Baylor University. The Coalition for a Tobacco Free Arkansas honored him with the Trailblazer award in 2006 for tobacco control advocacy. In 2007 Handsel Art received Gold and Silver Medals from the National Public Health Information Coalition for tobacco prevention print media. Pinky has worked in the aluminum industry, as a waiter and bartender, sold used and collectable books, and markets his own crafts, jewelry, toys, and art. He and his wife, Julie Andersen, the past Program Coordinator for Tobacco Free Marion County, live in rural north central Arkansas on 40 wooded acres in a 35 year old rabbit barn they have refurbished into a straw bale home. As a family business, Handsel Art has offered to the public quality art, advertising, public relations, and photography since 1971 and currently works to challenge a predatory rogue industry with tobacco prevention activists locally and around the globe.
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