James Downey (Internet performance artist), Date of Birth
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About James Downey (Internet performance artist)
- James Downey (born July 4, 1958) is a US author and rare book & document conservator.
- He is also known as an internet performance artist, who has organized two relatively high-profile stunts, "Paint the Moon" and "Nobel Prize for Jo".
- In addition, he is one of the principals behind the ballistics research project Ballistics by the Inch and a writer for Guns.com. Born in St.
- Louis, Missouri, Downey graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa, and did graduate work in English Literature at the University of Iowa.
- While there he discovered the Iowa Center for the Book, where he learned bookbinding, papermaking and book conservation, launching his career as a book and paper conservator.
- While at Iowa he also took classes with the Iowa Writers' Workshop, which furthered his desire to write.
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