This is Brandan “B-Mike” Odums. Visual artist, filmmaker and founder of the urban art space in the city of New Orleans dubbed StudioBE. The street artist that squeezes beauty from the bandos and prefers his resistance in living color.
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This is Brandan “B-Mike” Odums. Visual artist, filmmaker and founder of the urban art space in the city of New Orleans dubbed StudioBE. The street artist that squeezes beauty from the bandos and prefers his resistance in living color.
Read MoreAllowing mostly non-Black, particularly white, photographers to tell our stories under the guise of photojournalism is a racially insensitive act of erasure.
Read MoreI think we’re contributing to a quickly growing community of Asian-Americans who are inspired by activism and other movements by black/brown communities and also want to make a change.
Read MoreYears from now this stretch of years will likely be seen as a turning point in black artist liberation and resistance.
Read MoreOn a larger, more systemic scale, cultural appropriation only becomes a problem because of the capitalistic commodification of art and culture, which places artistic importance on a hierarchal scale of profitability.
Read MoreI wonder how it feels to have the ability to extract, gauge, or even deny your artwork of a political identity.
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