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Ayo Scott

American

Born and raised in New Orleans, Ayo Scott is a graduate of Ben Franklin High School and Xavier University. He entered grad school at The Institute of Design in Chicago before taking a year off to create a series of paintings inspired by the tsunami of 2004. Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans the year after, prompting Scott to immediately return to New Orleans. While living in his parents gutted home in the Gentilly neighborhood, he started a clothing and design company which continued for several years until he began to drift from commercial work toward his own artistic projects.
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Breanna Thompson

Breanna Thompson was born in New Orleans and grew up in New Orleans and Pass Christian, Mississippi. She was able to experience life in a bustling metropolis and at the same time was acquainted with living a more rural life in a small town. Straddling the two worlds created a well roundedness that proves itself to this day: participating in the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts’ (NOCCA) classical violin program and processing the lessons about life and death hailing from New Orleans and living on a ranch brought. ​

In Thompson's work, she discusses the metaphysical, examining form and place through various media. In welding steel poles end to end and weaving them through each other, she discusses collective existence. Throwing paint at her substrate, she examines the exertion of control on what is essentially chaos. Pulling forms from that chaos proved that in order to succeed, one must release some control to gain more. Marrying various media, the available visual vocabulary is extended to have discussions on creation and collective existence.

Thompson has built hercareer as a freelance art director, painter, graphic designer, and carpenter and has contributed her talents to numerous film, television, and web projects.

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