Meow Wolf taps famed L.A. animation house for its new Los Angeles venue

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Set us as preferred For its upcoming Los Angeles venue, experiential art firm Meow Wolf will focus on the art of storytelling, with a specific eye toward skewering our city’s moviemaking magic.To help bring that vision to life, Meow Wolf has entered into a creative partnership with Titmouse, one of L.A.’s most renowned independent animation houses.

The Hollywood-based studio behind popular series such as “Big Mouth” and “Star Trek: Lower Decks” will create animation that will be shown throughout the West L.A.venue, which is on target for a late 2026 opening at the Howard Hughes entertainment complex.

Travel & Experiences The Santa Fe, N.M.collective is transforming an old movie theater into a maximalist playground, complete with animated candy at a concession stand and seats that appear to be floating.It’s a move that represents a shift for Santa Fe, N.M.-based Meow Wolf.

Over the last decade-plus, the art collective has grown beyond its anything-goes, punk-meets-psychedelic roots into an organization with full-scale, maximalist installations in its hometown, Denver, Las Vegas, Houston and the Dallas suburbs.In the past, Meow Wolf kept most of its media in-house.

As part of its larger-than-life participatory art installations, Meow Wolf L.A.will feature a mix of live action and animation, the former filmed by Meow Wolf in its Santa Fe studio.

Meow Wolf’s James Stephenson, a senior VP with the company and its creative director of emerging media, said the degree to which the L.A.exhibition will lean into various animation styles necessitated an outside partner.

Titmouse’s work, in development by a number of directors with contrasting tones, will be shown on a variety of formats, ranging from cinema screens to full-room projections.“I really believe in animation as an art form, and I know the Titmou...