Posts by Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled "Embroidered Life" that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
Creative Products
November 25, 2022

Best of 2022: 50 of the Most Creative Products Everyone Wanted This Year

As 2022 comes to an end, it’s always fun to look back on where the year has taken us. One way to get a sense of the prevailing trends is to see what products everyone wanted over the past 365 days. From artsy McDonald’s Happy Meal toys to Target-brand birds that are TikTok sensations, there’s a lot that we loved this year. Collaborations represented some of the most sought-after products in 2022.

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Creative Products
November 23, 2022

15 Fabulous Flower Vases Offering Creative Ways to Display Your Blooms

Whether you’re displaying fresh-cut or dried blooms, contemporary vases offer a stylish way to hold botanicals. There are so many choices beyond the plain, clear glass cylinder forms we so often think of. From colorful cats to anatomical hearts to colorful abstract forms, there is something that will appeal to every type of home decor. You might be wondering if a planter is the same thing as a flower vase.

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Style
November 21, 2022

Spectacular Sculptural Facial Hair From the 2022 National Beard and Moustache Championships

Growing and maintaining a beard and mustache is an art that some take very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that there is an annual competition that celebrates epic facial hair. The 2022 Honest Amish National Beard and Moustache Championships has announced the winners of its November 12 competition in Casper, Wyoming. Photographer Greg Anderson was there to document the incredible beards and mustaches that graced the competitive contest.

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Installation
November 18, 2022

Two Artists Turn One Tree Into a Different Installation Every Season

A single tree offers a unique way to chronicle the changes that happen over the course of a year. Showcasing this passage-of-time concept is the collaborative work titled One Tree Four Seasons by Swedish architect and artist Ulf Mejergren and Finnish artist Antti Laitinen. As the name suggests, they are creating four different artworks that revolve around one tree and using materials found in nature to do so.

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