Naomi Patterson was born in North Dakota and educated at the University of Minnesota where she graduated with honors. She is an accomplished curator, consultant and posses expert installation experience.  She spent five years working in Mexico City at the Rufino Tamayo Contemporary Museum of Art and upon returning to the United States started consulting for local, national and international art connoisseur.

Currently, working with the F8 Photographers has been an experience and taught everyone involved how important team work is in order to come together as group.

As the quote of the exhibition states, “We must learn to live as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.”   Martin Luther King