Atelier Valla is a full service creative studio that covers a wide range of commissioned visual imagery. Victor Valla is the co-owner, with his wife Justine, a Textile Print Designer. Victor is of French & Danish parentage and is an artist-educator with over 30 years of experience. His BFA, in Painting and Illustration is from RIT, in Rochester, NY and his MFA, in Painting and Printmaking, was earned at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

While on a Tiffany Foundation Grant as a post-graduate, he studied Printmaking in Paris at the famed Atelier 57, and he has taught full-time in Graphic Design, Illustration, and Art History Programs at several of the finest Art Schools in the States. Among these are RIT and Syracuse Universities in NY, Kean University in NJ, and University of the Arts, in PA. He has also taught courses at Montclair State and William Patterson Colleges in NJ, University of Illinois, UALR, in Little Rock, AR, and at several Community Colleges in the Northeast.