Wesley Gant

Hello

It’s more than you want to know, but there are some good bits here.

The early years: music and art

  • 1995 — played first show at Fitzgerald’s in Houston at 14
  • 1997 — selected to attend a visual arts magnet high school
  • 1999 — landed a job doing surveys for voter/consumer marketing research firm
  • 2000 — survived Y2K, awarded scholarship to Glassell School of Art (MFAH)
  • 2002 — studied audio and visual production at Houston community college, worked as a designer and audio engineer
  • 2003 — band wins national JBL/Guitar Center contest; records first album at the legendary Cherokee Studios in Hollywood, CA. Kept a day job as pre-press tech at a commercial printing house.
  • 2004 — first of two albums released with the band Jack in the Pulpit
  • 2005 — kicked out of a studio by Beyonce’s producer for having a good idea at the wrong time

College and career

  • 2006 — first agency job as a web designer
  • 2007 — enrolled in university; major in Government, Minor in Communications
  • 2008 — started as Designer on university marketing team
  • 2009 — launched a church; led music and design, served in strategic planning
  • 2010 — started writing economics blogs for AEI, one of the nation’s most influential policy think tanks
  • 2011 — graduated cum laude, enrolled in MA program, promoted to Art Director & Brand Strategist
  • 2012 — As Art Director and Brand Strategist, I mentored under the former ad exec behind several iconic national campaigns of the 1980s-90s
  • 2013 — studied in the living room of one of the world’s top experts on constitutional design
  • 2014 — earned Masters degree in Political Science

Moving up

  • 2015 — served as Senior Designer at Academy Sports & Outdoors
  • 2016 — joined Polymath as Communications Strategist
  • 2017 — earned new title: Dad
  • 2018 — moved to Austin, TX
  • 2019 — became Director of Strategy and a foster parent
  • 2020 — survived a pandemic, released first solo album as Post Ephemera
  • 2024 — TBD

Let’s connect over coffee if you happen to be in the Austin area. Contact via LinkedIn or shoot an email.

Thanks!