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Sophie and Lili

Posted on April 17, 2013 - by Kate
Products

Sophie and Lili is a small company that makes adorable and fun fabric dolls for, I would argue, “girls of all ages.” I don’t know where I came upon their work but…it was probably Instagram…I’m hooked. I have a particular affinity for their non-doll offerings – super summery prints. As we start to pack and [...]

Teil Duncan

Posted on April 16, 2013 - by Kate
Artists

I love oil paintings and I love color, color blocking and more so when I came across the work of Teil Duncan I was thrilled. She’s young, lives in Charleston, South Carolina and paints fabulous nudes as well as beautiful animals with a really distinct touch. She’s a young Auburn graduate as well! I remember [...]

Holly Senn

Posted on February 6, 2013 - by Kate
Artists

Holly Senn is really cool. I know, I say that about everyone. But Holly creates her sculptural installations out of discarded library books. It’s funny in part because Holly herself has worked in corporate and academic libraries for much of her career. How many of us haven’t wanted to tear up some of our work [...]

Eleanor Anderson

Posted on February 1, 2013 - by Kate
Artists

I love how modern these textiles works by Eleanor Anderson look but I really can’t find out too much about her online. I found out about her through the even-awesome, Textile Arts Center where it appears she’s a resident right now. As I got to digging around though it appears she’s far younger than I [...]

Sophia Sobers

Posted on January 12, 2013 - by Kate
Artists

I’ve been writing this blog for a long time – the very first post was January 14, 2009 in fact so it’s been just under four years. The whole time I’ve been hoping that amazing, young artists would come and tell me about their incredible work and several have over the years. A few weeks [...]

Katrien Vogel

Posted on January 10, 2013 - by Kate
Artists

I really can’t find out too much about Katrien Vogel but that doesn’t stop me from loving her works. She is based in the Netherlands and was a part of the 2012 Paper Biennial Rijswijk at the Museum Rijswijk as well. Amoebas! I went into Google Translate to try to figure out her materials and it looks [...]

Georgia Gremouti

Posted on January 4, 2013 - by Kate
Artists

I’m not sure what I’ll do here on the blog if Neil leaves the Netherlands. Without him there I never would have heard about the 2012 Paper Biennial Rijswijk at the Museum Rijswijk in The Netherlands. But no need to worry because there were incredible artists there to keep me busy including Georgia Gremouti, a [...]

Sigrid Neuwinger

Posted on December 11, 2012 - by Kate
Artists

Lots of things have been happening over here the last few weeks – from going away for Thanksgiving to getting engaged! Yay! Such a fun month but now, back to blogging Thanks to the ever awesome, Neil, I came upon Sigrid Neuwinger. I can tell you practically nothing about her or her work as everything [...]

Yuriko Yamaguchi

Posted on November 8, 2012 - by Kate
Artists

There is a blog – I think based in France – which I’ve mentioned here before, Murmure Visible. The writer, Marie-Andree Cote and I share a similar taste in artists. I often find new artists on her site and see ones I’ve written about on hers as well. I have no idea if she’s ever [...]

Peter Crawley

Posted on November 6, 2012 - by Kate
Artists

In my day job I work with several music companies and one of their creative directors recently sent around the link to the website of Peter Crawley. Peter creates what he calls Stitched Illustrations and they often take on the form of musical visualizations. One of my favorite parts of his work is that you don’t [...]

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Teil Duncan

I love oil paintings and I love color, color blocking and more so when I came across the work of Teil Duncan I was thrilled. She’s young, lives in Charleston, South Carolina and paints fabulous nudes as well as beautiful animals with a really distinct touch. She’s a young Auburn graduate as well! I remember [...]

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Anna Maria Maiolino

Absentee blogger alert! As many of you know I quit my full-time position in Early April and was thrilled to have more time for things like blogging and volunteering but, as often happens, the work I am doing on my own totally consumed my mind and my interest and the blog bore the brunt of [...]

Products

Sophie and Lili

Sophie and Lili is a small company that makes adorable and fun fabric dolls for, I would argue, “girls of all ages.” I don’t know where I came upon their work but…it was probably Instagram…I’m hooked. I have a particular affinity for their non-doll offerings – super summery prints. As we start to pack and [...]

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Valentine’s Day

Last Valentine’s Day was a blur of six girlfriends in bright colors on South Beach soaking up the sun and listening to awesome playlists. This year, while they make the pilgrimage again, I don’t think I’ll be making the journey. With the change that was my move to Boston I sort of dropped the ball [...]

Restaurant

Anchor & Hope

Last night while in San Francisco for work I was able to take an hour in between events for dinner with my cousin David. We were at a bar on Minna St. so we walked down the way to a restaurant called Anchor & Hope. The ambiance of the restaurant was exactly what I like [...]

Site

Mjolk

While poking around on sites my boyfriend sent me I came across Mjolk Shop. I have long been a fan of Scandinavian design and this site blends Scandinavian treats with Japanese ones as well. As it’s the holidays I thought it was appropriate to share some of the coolest things I found on the site. [...]

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