Jean-Marcel St. Jacques is a philosopher, sculptor, hoodoo, and self-taught artist and 12th-generation Louisiana Afro-Creole. His family fled Louisiana in 1970 to escape racial oppression. He returned shortly before Hurricane Katrina to reconnect with the land of his ancestors. He makes art with wood salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in the Treme neighborhood, and masks as a Medicine Man in the Black Masking Indian tradition of New Orleans. His art is in the permanent collections of the American Folk Art Museum, The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, The Alexandria Museum of Art, and in the homes of thousands of art-lovers worldwide. His work has shown in museums nationally and internationally, including: "The Black Indians of New Orleans" at the Musee du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac in Paris, October 2022- January 2023. "American Perspectives: Stories From the American Folk Art Museum Collection," curated by Stacy Hollander at the American Folk Art Museum in 2018, which traveled for 6 years to the Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Vero Beach Museum of Art, the Frick Pittsburgh Museum of Art, the Cummer Museum of Art, the Ashville Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. "Hand-Stitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts," curated by Sarah Margolis-Pineo at the Self-Taught Genius Gallery in Long Island City, NY, in 2021, which traveled to the George Washington University Museum, the Haggin Museum of Art, the Lightner Museum, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, the Utah Museum of Fine Art, and the Washington State Historical Society. "Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom," curated by Édouard Duval Carrié and Dr. Ada Ferrer, which traveled from 2018-2022 to the Pensacola Museum of Art, the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Duke University, New York University's King Carlos of Spain Center, the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, Plaza Vieja, Havana, and the Galeria Oriente in Santiago de Cuba.