StudioBE
Warehouse-scale immersive gallery of murals honoring Black history and community, born from a temporary pop-up.
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This guide to Studio BE in New Orleans starts in 2016, when a Bywater warehouse owner expecting his thirty six thousand square foot space to sit empty instead handed the keys to muralist Brandan Odums, known as BMike, for what both men called a three month pop up. It traces Odums's earlier unauthorized show inside a crumbling, Katrina-damaged apartment complex, and how his brother Eddie turned this pop up into a running business with admission, tours and merchandise stacked beneath murals of figures like John Lewis and Fannie Lou Hamer. Look around at the raw concrete walls the murals cover.
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