A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Luke St. John McKnight is an artist turned community strategist.
As founder of the seasonal exhibition series, Build The Fire, and co-founder of strategic planning bureau, Saint John & Company, McKnight began his community-based work building initiatives focusing on multiplying the individual and collective capacity for vibrancy, enrichment, and livability within Baton Rouge.
St. John further crystallized his affinity for service while working as a project manager for multiple programs within The Walls Project , a local nonprofit leveraging the arts for community revitalization. Under the Walls Project, Luke also served as their inaugural program manager for the creative workforce program The Futures Fund.
Following the Walls, McKnight joined the social enterprise MetroMorphosis, a systems change organization transforming urban communities from within by helping individuals and institutions transform marginalized communities into thriving spaces to live, work and experience success. St. John served as MetroMorphosis’s Innovations & Partnership Catalyst responsible for relaunching Baton Rouge’s My Brothers Keeper Initiative and maximizing indigenous potential through leadership cultivation.
McKnight now serves as Chief Operations Officer for the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, fostering the creative capacity of the Capital Area’s 10-parish region.
