Melvin L. Nesbitt Jr. was born in Spartanburg SC and came to Washington DC in 2006. He has completed public murals for the CW Harris Elementary School, Washington, DC (2020) and the District Department of General Services Headquarters, Washington, DC (2023). Since 2021, has returned to his elementary school to conduct an annual collage workshop for nearly five hundred children. Nesbitt lives and works in Baltimore, MD.