Biography

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Brandon "OnBrand" Stuart, a native and current resident of Detroit, is an interdisciplinary artist whose creative work in music, filmmaking, acting, and movement focuses on contextualizing facets of the millennial experience. The context of his millennial experience, graduating college during the recession of the late 2000s, has been balancing the need for financial stability with persistent resolve to realize personal truths and grow as a purposeful artist and human being.

As a 2020 Unstoppable Voters Project grant recipient through the Center for Artistic Activism (C4AA), Brandon designed, led, and co-directed a creative voting rights project called “Float The Vote”. This project culminated with “Float The Vote: Tell Your Story”, a short docufilm highlighting the team’s efforts that was an official 2021 selection of the PopDoc Awards, the Detroit Black Film Festival, and the Better Cities Film Festival. 

In 2024, Brandon became one of ten musicians selected to be a part of Music to Life's Music Changemaker Accelerator Academy and receive grant funding to pilot his project "Composing Wellness: Live Music +Yoga". The completion of this project included the release of yet another short docufilm and an original soundtrack depicting key moments experienced and shared by band members, instructors, and yogis over the course of the series.

His role as founder of ICONICLASS is fundamental to interconnecting his skillsets and ideas with its rotating roster of artists from different mediums and modalities. Brandon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Behavioral Biology and East Asian Studies from Johns Hopkins University; a Master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Chicago; and teaching certifications in Pilates and alignment-based yoga.