Josh Drews is an artist and art educator who lives in Columbia, South Carolina, and has been teaching visual art at Spring Valley since 2001. He has assisted in the development of an arts curriculum for South Carolina, including co-authoring the state’s Media Arts standards, and he has written state curriculum guides for media arts and printmaking. Drews serves as the National Art Education Association (NAEA) southeast region vice president, the chair of the NAEA Advocacy Task Force, and is the former president of the South Carolina Art Education Association. He has been recognized as the 2020 NAEA National Secondary Art Educator of the Year, the 2021 Winthrop University Fine Arts Alumni of the Year, and he received the Mac Arthur Goodwin Award in 2022 for his work in visual arts education through the utilization of community arts resources. Drews is also an avid print maker and working artist.