With this week being the official kickoff to the holiday season, why not get ahead of gift shopping for your loved ones? My Modern Met Academy is having a huge Black Friday sale on all of our online art classes, making them the perfect gifts for friends and family.
Landscape art has a long and rich history.
Nona Kecil is one of the most fashionable characters you’ll meet.
Textile artist Kathrin Marchenko works magic with thread and tulle. Throughout the years, she has embroidered on the netting, and the effects have made her stitches appear as if they’re floating. Combined with Marchenko’s penchant for detail and painterly approach, the style is whimsical with a dark color palette that makes her work easy to recognize. Marchenko is a prolific textile artist who experiments in a variety of ways.
Some 18 years ago, Danielle Clough stumbled upon a vintage Playboy issue in an antique shop.
Now that we are firmly in the second half of 2025, it’s a great time to take stock of our...
For a long time, the Western canon has separated “arts” and “crafts.” This distinction has its own fascinating history, but today, the lines between the two camps have blurred. When it comes to creating art, the possibilities are truly endless. There are a thousand and one ways to draw and paint, as there are to sculpt, photograph, collage, and so on.
In the world of Dallas-based artist Nosheen Iqbal, embroidery doesn't take place on a fabric canvas.
Sometimes, our traditional methods of preserving memories just aren’t enough.
Crafting can be magical, and double-sided Su embroidery might be the most enchanting of all. It features two embroidered designs, one on each side of a transparent piece of fabric, that exist independently. The designs look completely different, and you'd never know there was another embroidery on the other side of the fabric. If this sounds impossible, you can see it in action.
Illustrator and embroidery artist Tomoko Kubo is stitching their way through the Japanese hiragana lettering system.
February is a month known for many things, above all love and diversity.
