John R Miles III is a collage /mix media artist, born March 2nd 1975 to John R Miles jr. and Arie G. Miles. John Miles better known as Trey attended Western Carolina University located just a few hundred miles west of his home town of Charlotte NC. While attending Western Carolina, Trey began to gain a deeper love and understanding for the arts, graduating with a BFA in art, concentration in graphic design. After graduating Mr. Miles accepted a job with Mecklenburg Counties school system as a high school art teacher. Trey's earlier pieces focused on the aesthetic relationships between shape form and color. Currently his works are heavily influenced by the political struggles set forth by society towards blacks both past and present.