Posts by Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met and Manager of My Modern Met Store. She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned her BFA in Illustration and MFA in Illustration Practice. Sara is also an embroidery illustrator and writer living in Seattle, Washington. She runs Bear&Bean, a studio where she stitches pet portraits and other beloved creatures. She chronicles the creativity of others through her website Brown Paper Bag and newsletter, Orts. Her latest book is Threads of Treasure: How to Make, Mend, and Find Meaning Through Thread, published in 2014. Sara’s work has been recognized in Be Creative With Workbox, Embroidery Magazine, American Illustration, on Iron and Wine’s album Beast Epic, among others. When she’s not stitching or writing, Sara enjoys planning things that bring together the craft community. She is the co-founder of Camp Craftaway, a day camp for crafty adults with hands-on workshops in the Seattle area.
Art
June 1, 2017

Booming Tile Shop Handcrafts Every Ceramic Tile as an Individual Work of Art

Decorative wall tiles can make an ordinary room shine, and no one proves this better than Motawi Tileworks. Their ceramic art tiles combine charming surface motifs with the beauty of age-old craft. Finding illustrative inspiration from the likes of Mid-Century design, Art Nouveau, and the famous Japanese block printer Yoshiko Yamamoto, their exquisite tiles go well beyond your conventional one-color creations. Motawi Tileworks treats every tile as a hand-made work of art.

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Art
May 20, 2017

Jeff Koons Debuts a 45-Foot-Tall Inflatable Ballerina at NYC’s Rockefeller Center

Renowned pop artist Jeff Koons has recently installed a new sculpture in the middle of New York City’s Rockefeller Center. Known for his iconic, larger-than-life balloon dogs, this particular piece is an inflatable ballerina sculpture—only his second following a giant rabbit that floated in Times Square nearly 10 years ago. Titled Seated Ballerina, the metallic-looking character is part of Koons’ Antiquity series.

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Food Art
May 17, 2017

Edible Raindrop Jelly Cake Includes a Cherry Blossom Flower Blooming on Your Plate

Nowadays, it seems like it’s not enough for a restaurant to have a simple piece of pie on their dessert menu. Thanks to creative and innovative pastry chefs, trendy locales are producing sweet treats that go beyond conventional offerings and are downright awe-inspiring—and of course, delicious. La Floraison in Sydney, Australia, is the latest eatery making waves with their visionary dessert.

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Gift Guide
May 14, 2017

40 Creative Mother’s Day Gifts for the Greatest Woman in Your Life

Mother’s Day in the United States is rapidly approaching—it'll be here on Sunday, May 11, 2025. Though we don’t need a holiday to tell our moms how much they mean to us, this special celebration is a nice way to express our appreciation for everything they do. And, the internet is chock-full of items that would make for unique gifts for mom (this includes grandma and any other mother figures, too!).

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