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President & CEO, Kern Studios & Mardi Gras World · Experience: Kern Studios · Education: Windsor School Seville Spain · Location: New Orleans · 275 connections on LinkedIn. View Barry Kern’s Kern Studios recently welcomed the fourth generation of leadership. Fitz Kern, Barry’s oldest son, has joined to oversee the company’s operations and strategic planning. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, Kern Studios and Mardi Gras World sustained severe wind damage but were spared from flooding. A family-run company, Kern Studios dates back to 1932, when Roy Kern an artist who became a sign painter built his first Mardi Gras Float with the help of his young son, Blaine. In 1947, Blaine founded Blaine Kern Artists and began a float-building career and created the most prolific float building company in the world [ 1 ] building floats Kern Studios is the go-to company for custom fabricated props, creative parade floats and spectacular parades. Mardi Gras World; River City Venues; Contact; Call For nearly 80 years, Kern Studios has been the premier float builder for the Mardi Gras carnival season, a New Orleans tradition that dates back to the 1700s. Building Mardi Gras parades is a year-round effort at Kern Studios. You can get a peek into the process at Mardi Gras World, our working warehouses that are open to the public. Barry has taken Kern Studios from a local Mardi Gras float building company to one of the world’s premier entertainment production and specialty fabrication companies. What is the real name of the Mardi Gras World company? Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras World Mardi Gras World (also known as Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras World, MGW) is a tourist Barry Kern, CEO and president of Kern Studios and Mardi Gras World, checks on the alignment of a row of footballs on the side of a Tostitos-themed float on Thursday, February 6, 2025 as he and his Barry Kern, President and C.E.O. of Kern Studios and Mardi Gras World talks about What NOT To Do Today, as president and CEO of the family business, Kern has grown Kern Studios and its related entity, Mardi Gras World into a company with estimated revenue in the $100 million range (Kern Barry Kern, CEO and president of Kern Studios and Mardi Gras World, photographed Wednesday, April 4, 2018. Advocate staff photo by SCOTT THRELKELD Bacchus rolls through the streets of New Orleans After many requests for private tours of Kern Studios from people wanting a sneak-peak of Mardi Gras, the Kerns decided to open up the working studio to the public. In 1984, Mardi Gras World was created as a tourist attraction to provide visitors a behind-the-scenes look of our work. Widely successful, the attraction draws hundreds of thousands Barry Kern, CEO and president of Kern Studios and Mardi Gras World, checks on the alignment of a row of footballs on the side of a Tostitos-themed float on Thursday, February 6, 2025 as he and his Mardi Gras World is a New Orleans company that provides hundreds of floats for the many parades of Mardi Gras. Owner Barry Kern, whose grandfather started the business, talked about the history of The King Kong float was so realistic, it sent Mardi Gras revelers running for the exits. "All of the guys are dressed up as the natives and run up to hold the doors and gates," said Barry Kern The Rex Organization has presented John Georges, owner of The Times-Picayune and New Orleans Advocate, and Barry Kern, of Mardi Gras World, a proclamation in honor of the virtual Mardi Advocate staff photo by MATTHEW HINTON-- Derek Franklin, artistic director for the Krewe of Orpheus, makes a flower for a Mardi Gras floats at Kern Studios' Mardi Gras World in New Orleans, La Since the 1980s, commercial clients have been a growing part of the Kern business under the leadership of the third generation of the Kern family: Barry Kern, president and CEO of Kern Studios and Mardi Gras World. Both companies operate out of the same, 250,000-square-foot Kern Studios building. Barry Kern is the third-generation creative genius behind what's officially known as Kern Studios and Mardi Gras World. But it might more aptly be called a "factory of fun." "This is Mardi Gras World. Barry Kern and his crew at Mardi Gras World have built a new throne that we're going to use for Shaq this year," Krewe Captain Clark Brennan said. Bacchus is expected to step off Sunday, March 2 Annette and Buddy Billingsley, visiting from Arkansas, greet world-renowned float builder Blaine Kern, standing on a float at Mardi Gras World with wife Holly during a portrait shoot in New
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