NEW ORLEANS — If you travel down the bayou this Carnival season, you may notice some murals going up.
Houma's Main Street is transforming one brushstroke at a time.
It's all thanks to Houma native, Kassie Voisin.
"We're just trying to keep it bright and colorful and inviting. This is our main parade route so a lot of people can come and take pictures with them," Voisin said.
The windows downtown will be covered for Carnival. Voisin said it's an idea that started after Hurricane Ida.
"This is what I can do to help I feel like," Voisin said, "We actually started painting these window murals on the vacant buildings. The buildings that were destroyed."
This is the second year Terrebonne Parish has commissioned Voisin for her work, she said.
You'll find things like an alligator covered in beads, clutching his prized possession, a Hubig's pie.
"Hubig's pies is a huge thing right now. Nobody can find them, so I was like our gator has to be eating a Hubig's pie," Voisin said.
The gator is the first mural she finished. Now, she has 80 more to do before the first parade rolls in Houma on Friday, Feb. 10.
Voisin said she's been creative since she was little.
"I didn't go to school for it. I just kind of started out of the gate and it took me awhile to build the company," Voisin said.
Nine years later, her work is being appreciated beyond the Bayou.
She recently went viral on social media for a video of a mural she did for Veterans Day.
"I'm on Tik Tok, Instagram and Facebook. I don't do Snapchat. I feel like I'm a little too old for Snapchat," Voisin said, "It has not been the same since."
Voisin now has more than 36,000 followers on Facebook and her work can be found across the country.
"The farthest I've gone is Los Angeles. That's probably one of the biggest jobs that I've done. I've been all over from there to Florida, Texas, the southern states, Michigan," Voisin said.
But ever since Ida, she's been keeping her murals close to home.
"To see the community come together after such a hard hit, it makes you want to use your talents here," Voisin.
With small brushstrokes, Voisin is making a big impact.
She started selling her artwork. Right now, she's working on making prints of the Mardi Gras gator.
A portion of the money will go to the Hache Grant which funds revitalization efforts in downtown Houma, Voisin said.
You can find her and her work on Facebook by clicking this link.
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