In 2007, after watching a massive anti-violence march in New Orleans on CNN, Charles O. Anderson moved down from his native New Jersey to the city that he now calls home. He has organized hundreds of marches, vigils, parades, meetings, and classes all concerned with stopping the violence.

In 2010, a mother who lost her son to violence asked Anderson to draw a picture of him. He hadn't drawn since he was 14, but he knew this mother only cared about his effort. She was ecstatic, and asked Anderson to keep drawing for other mothers who lost their sons to violence. This was the beginning of his art career.

Since then, Anderson has drawn pictures of the people who do positive things for the city of New Orleans. They are the people that make up the New Orleans Peace Movement and together they build a Culture of Life in the Big Easy. Anderson looks at art as a way to value life and to lift up and encourage those who show value in life.