A native of New Orleans, Marcus Brown is a sculptor, painter, inventor, musician, and educator. Brown holds a M.Ed. from Portland State University and BFA from KCAI. His work is expansive and includes national and international exhibits and performances in New York City, Berlin, Germany, and Krakow, Poland, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, McKenna Art Gallery, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, to name a few. Brown currently has public sculptures in Biloxi, Mississippi, Human Universal Musical Sound [HUMS], The New Leaf on St. Bernard Ave., and St. Peter Claver and Henriette Delille at St. Peter Claver School in New Orleans. He also has sound sculptures at JAMNOLA and recently developed a public piece for interactive display at the 2022 New Orleans French Quarter Festival. Mentors like the late Lin Emery, John T. Scott, and Jim Leedy instilled in Brown the importance of always learning and experimenting to create your own path. In that vein, Brown developed a form of painting called "electro-sonic painting" in which the artist paints with sound/data producing instruments. He has performed with his invention in several venues both locally and nationally. In addition to his performance art, Brown has exhibited with artists such as Andy Warhol, Chris Burden, and Hannah Wilke. Brown is currently combining a new form of creative storytelling using augmented reality (AR) sculptures with interactive multimedia elements. His latest project, Slavery Trails (below), is a geotagged musically interactive augmented reality sculpture installation series based on slave ships and enslaved peoples.