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Gradient Rainbow Weaving by Sunwoven 30"x15" ($295) Today’s edition comes care of the newest inductee into the 20x200 artist fam: Sunwoven. Handmade by fiber artist and textile designer Erin Barrett in her Charleston, SC studio, this delight-inducing Gradient Rainbow Weaving was love at first sight. Who cares what’s at the end of this rainbow? It’s the rest of it we’ve got our eyes on... MORE after the jump »
Today’s very special tag team 5+5 doubles as a high-priority heads up for all you child-rearers out there. It comes courtesy of longtime friends of 20x200, Sara Mauskopf and Anne Halsall — the badass entrepreneurs and incredible moms behind a visionary new tech startup tailored to the modern parent: Winnie. In essence, Winnie’s a social networking app for people with children, but in practice it’s so much more. Winnie’s a place for parents to ask...
When books and art get together, there's an opportunity for next-level harmonizing. We can't think of a person more perfectly poised to take on that task than YA novelist, art obsessee, and true blue 20x200 fan Kayla Cagan. Cagan is a lifelong wordnerd and self-proclaimed theater geek, but fine art has also been a creative undercurrent for the writer since day one. First of all, Cagan is an OG 20x200 collector (woop!). Beyond that, Cagan’s childhood...
ie) a crucial reminder of how far we’ve come and just how far we’ve still got to go. It’s also a heavy hint to celebrate the women in your inner circle. In the spirit of spotlighting women we admire, we asked a few female-identifying 20x200 artists about being a woman in the art world. Here’s some of what they had to say...MORE after the jump »
Animal Locomotion: Plate 70 (Sloth) by Eadweard Muybridge Cold weather isn’t good at the graceful exit. This time of year, we start to wonder when winter’s gonna take a bow — the slowness of coat season is no more excruciating than two weeks before the official start of spring (except maybe one week before spring). So to put a peppy spin on slowness, we’re turning our attention to a supremely happy-making sort of slow: the sloth! If...
Julia Rothman's latest animated illustration for The New York Times is just too doggone cute! If the title “working artist” calls to mind the image of a smock-swathed aesthete arched over an easel in the afternoon light, serenely surveying their subject … spot on! That’s pretty much it. J/k: full time artist-ing is a lot of elbow grease and go-getterdom, and our 20x200 artist fam cumulatively possesses enough hustle to give Van McCoy a run...
