Location: 1326 Franklin Ave, New Orleans
Practice: Boss Status Beauty owner, Lynette, has the motto Beauty is Boss Everywhere.
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Rapper, Actor, Record Producer, Founder of No Time For Crime anti-violence organization
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Location: New Orleans, LA
Practice: Voodoo Preistess / Baby Doll with the Mandingo Warriors
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Website: https://www.facebook.com/cinnamon.blackneworleanslive
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Rapper, buisnessman, owner of Nuthin-But-Fire record store.
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Website: http://www.sess4-5.com/
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Beloved seller of fruits and vegetables, whose sings his wares over his megaphone from his painted-over truck that cruises the streets of downtown New Orleans nourishing our bellies, eyes, and ears.
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Location: New Orleans & Ireland
Practice: Luster is a beautiful photographer best known for the series, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, which portrays prisoners from three Louisiana prisons including the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence is her other photo series which documents contemporary and historical homicide sites in New Orleans, the homicide capital of the United States. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, New Orleans Museum of Art, and other notable public and private collections.
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Website: http://deborahluster.com
Location: New Orleans, LA
Practice: Girls Dance Troop age 8-12 that is mentored by rapper Keedy Black. Inspiring through Dance.
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Location: New Orleans, LA
Practice: McDonogh 35 Majorette Team and Flag Twirler Team!
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Location: New Orleans, LA
Practice: Dance troup of young empowered women led by Brandi. Smoke Sausages, age 13, Hot Sausages, age 13, Rice, age 10, Shrimp, age 10, Turkey Neck, age 14, Chicken Neck, age 8, Gumbo Juice, age 7, Crab, age 12
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Location: New Orleans, LA
Practice: Scrapper Bike Club that tricks out their bike wheels and frames.
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Big Queen, Washitaw Nation Black Indian Tribe, Artistic Director and founding member of Kumbuka African Drum & Dance Collective, Tulane University Adjunct professor, Activist.
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Location:New York, NY
Practice: Legendary guitarist Nels Cline was named by Rolling Stone as one of 20 “new guitar gods”, and one of the top 100 guitarists of all time, Cline has gained his widest fame as a member of acclaimed rock band Wilco since 2004. Cline has had a long and robust career, he debuted his first album in 1978.
Airlift project: Space Rites
Website: http://nelscline.com
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Visual and Performing Artist, Educator, Cultural Leader, Big Queen – Guardians of the Flame , Co-founder and Curator – Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame.
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Poet, released from St. Gabriel's women's prison in 2013 after serving 5 years.
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Big Chief of the Creole Osceolas Black Indian Tribe. Know as the Peace Cheif, Big Cheif Delco is also the founder of Serenity Peace Birds. His beloved passenger pigeons and doves are regular features at weddings and funerals in the city. Delco is also a horseman and car man, making him pretty much a renaissance man.
Airlift Project: Public Practice
Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83me4ye6YY