Scenes from Open Stu

Open Stu has always been about capturing our creative community in a specific time, space and place! This is our greatest hope for our ongoing documentary project ... to create a moment and document our people.
Durham artist Derrick Beasley, co-host of Open Stu
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artist Kennedi Carter (right) enjoys Open Stu at the Nasher Museum on Dec. 11, 2023. Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artist Kennedi Carter (middle) enjoys Open Stu at the Nasher Museum on Dec. 11, 2023. Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoy a soundscape and sitting for free photo portraits by Beasley. Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-hosted a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors enjoyed a soundscape and sat for free photo portraits. "I'm excited about the Nasher again," said Durham artist Candy Carver (above right). Photo by Cornell Watson.
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Photos by Cornell Watson
Artists Derrick Beasley and Marcella Zigbuo Camara co-host a special edition of their ongoing community series Open Stu, this time drawing inspiration from the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Visitors step out and enjoy a soundscape and sit for free photo portraits! They peruse a Maroon Archive, a collection of books, texts and Black ephemera exploring diasporic realities from fugitivity to futurism, curated by Marcella. The Maroon Archive includes books and exhibition catalogues from Marcella, Derrick and the Nasher Museum’s collections. Open Stu was inspired by Harlem Renaissance-era pop-up events of Carl Van Vechten, the Studio portrait practice of Addison N. Scurlock of Washington, D.C., as well as the work of Kamoinge Collective in Brooklyn. Previous Open Stu events have taken place at Derrick’s studio, the Black Wall Street forum, Shadowbox Studio. During the pandemic, he hosted a Zoom version called “Open Stüp.”