Early Life and Artistic Training Timothy App was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1947. His early education began at St. Sebastian School in Akron before he moved to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, to attend Campion Jesuit High School. These formative years in the American Midwest provided the foundation for a career defined by rigorous formal inquiry. He did not merely stumble into abstraction; he built his practice through a disciplined academi…