Donovan Fannon

Natively New Orleans, Donovan Fannon grew up a troubled youth. After a forceful exit ending his high school freshman year, he was accepted into the visual art program at the (then Uptown) New Orleans Center for Creative Art. More likely than not, this shift “saved” his sanity and life, a statement (…

Growing up in New Orleans in the mid 1990s, I discovered techno music while studying visual art at the New Orleans Center for Creative Art. The “rave” scene found me slipping out past curfew and deeply embedded among DJs playing rigid jackhammer beats, my eyes following rapidly twirling lights of sh…