His work has been displayed in exhibitions at the Envoy Gallery in New York City[2] and the North Carolina Museum of Art.

[8] Scott and his brother Seth Avett were involved with their respective bands during their college years.

[9] The brothers, along with guitarist/founding member John Twomey, merged the bands while maintaining the name Nemo in 1998.

[13] Avett painted the cover artwork for By the Way, I Forgive You, the 2018 album of long-time friend Brandi Carlile.

[14] In 2003, Scott Avett married his wife, Sarah, who gave birth to a baby girl, Eleanor, in late October 2008.

[15] In April 2011, it was announced that two shows in Texas would be postponed due to the birth of his second child, a son named Maxwell.

Avett revealed the sex of his baby in London when he re-wrote the lyrics to his song "Murder in the City" which originally was released in 2007.