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*all photos are my own, unless otherwise noted


travel / interviews / new mexico / art / illustrated / jewelry / books

  • February 2019
    • Feb 6, 2019 20 Hours in Las Vegas (New Mexico) Feb 6, 2019
    • Feb 1, 2019 Collection X Lookbook Feb 1, 2019
  • January 2019
    • Jan 31, 2019 Snowstorm on the Chamisa Trail Jan 31, 2019
    • Jan 23, 2019 Making mixtapes again / All the best sea songs / I love the ocean Jan 23, 2019
    • Jan 17, 2019 Climate Change T-shirts - We Are Breaking Up Jan 17, 2019
    • Jan 15, 2019 Designing a New Collection: Sketches Jan 15, 2019
    • Jan 13, 2019 Winterland Weekend in Abiquiu Jan 13, 2019
  • December 2018
    • Dec 26, 2018 Thank you, so long, 2018 Dec 26, 2018
    • Dec 24, 2018 Mountain Time - Nederland Dec 24, 2018
    • Dec 11, 2018 Holiday Gift Guide Dec 11, 2018
    • Dec 1, 2018 Best of Santa Fe (so far) Dec 1, 2018
  • November 2018
    • Nov 23, 2018 Building a Ring Stack Nov 23, 2018
    • Nov 20, 2018 Bookish Nov 20, 2018
  • October 2018
    • Oct 29, 2018 Mountain Time: Crater Lake, Cathedral Lake and Mt. Elbert Oct 29, 2018
    • Oct 26, 2018 Getting Started in Jewelry Making Oct 26, 2018
    • Oct 12, 2018 Maine Dreaming Oct 12, 2018
    • Oct 9, 2018 Moving Day Oct 9, 2018
  • September 2018
    • Sep 29, 2018 At the Craft Fair Sep 29, 2018
    • Sep 10, 2018 Mountain Time: Ice Lake Sep 10, 2018
  • August 2018
    • Aug 28, 2018 Summertime in Nova Scotia Aug 28, 2018
    • Aug 26, 2018 A Wedding Picnic in Chicago Aug 26, 2018
    • Aug 4, 2018 Collection IX Aug 4, 2018
  • July 2018
    • Jul 4, 2018 Rain Day Jul 4, 2018
  • June 2018
    • Jun 21, 2018 Mountain Time: Chaco Canyon Jun 21, 2018
    • Jun 19, 2018 Mountain Time Jun 19, 2018
  • April 2018
    • Apr 1, 2018 poco a poco Apr 1, 2018
  • March 2018
    • Mar 11, 2018 Big Sky Mar 11, 2018
    • Mar 7, 2018 To the West Mar 7, 2018
  • April 2017
    • Apr 1, 2017 This Year Will Be Different - A few illustrated months in 2017 Apr 1, 2017
  • March 2016
    • Mar 31, 2016 Oaxaca Sketchbook Mar 31, 2016
  • June 2015
    • Jun 1, 2015 The Artist Colony in Duved, Sweden Jun 1, 2015
  • May 2015
    • May 15, 2015 Illustrated Travel: Sleeping Bear Dunes May 15, 2015
  • March 2015
    • Mar 15, 2015 DIY: A Classic Wedding Dress With A Colorful Twist Mar 15, 2015
  • January 2015
    • Jan 30, 2015 Studio Visit: In Sweden with Malin Ståhl Jan 30, 2015
  • August 2014
    • Aug 4, 2014 R&Design: Polly Wales’ Rings Master Artful Elegance Aug 4, 2014
  • June 2014
    • Jun 1, 2014 R&Design: 3 Tips to Succeed in Jewelry Design from The ROPES’ Shana Ready Jun 1, 2014
  • January 2014
    • Jan 14, 2014 R&Design: Gretchen Jones Shares Tips For Emerging Designers Jan 14, 2014
Climate Change T-shirts - We Are Breaking Up - Rebecca Mir Grady

Climate Change T-shirts - We Are Breaking Up

January 17, 2019 in art, DIY, new mexico

Last month Niomi Fawn , of Curate, asked me if I wanted to make some t-shirts for an upcoming show at Art.I.Fact here in Santa Fe. I’ve been working on some painted textiles recently, so I said yes immediately. The show opens this Saturday, January 19th (details below).

I decided to make three styles, all hand painted with screen printing ink, on t-shirts that I got at the local Goodwill. I found some great t-shirts, but it’s definitely a mixed bag size wise.

t shirt shopping at the goodwill

Back in 2010, my advisor in grad school at the University of Illinois Chicago, where I got an MFA in studio art, invited me to create a design for a t-shirt making event at her gallery. Pamela Fraser is a painter now based in Vermont, but back in 2010 she ran an apartment gallery in Oak Park, IL called He Said She Said with her husband Randall Szott. She was organizing an event with 350 dot org, called Global Work Silkscreen, and the theme was on climate change. I’d been making a lot of comics about climate change, specifically about the ice pack breaking up and glaciers melting (see one of them here). I decided to do an illustration of ice floes breaking up, with the text “We are breaking up” for the event. It was a silkscreening party, so my friend Aay Preston-Myint, who is a printmaking genius, got all the screens ready ahead of time, and everyone brought t-shirts and sweatshirts and anything they wanted to get designs printed on.

After the show, I used the design to create some stationary sets that I sold along with my comics at events and in my long outdated Etsy shop, along with some illustrations of glaciers with the text “I am melting” .

we are breaking up - rebecca mir grady
i am melting - rebecca mir grady
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we are breaking up - rebecca mir grady

I couldn’t find any images of the shirts or the silkscreening party, but I dug up some old photos of the cards. I’m glad to see that my product photography skills have improved in the last ten years!

climate change t shirts - rebecca mir grady

For the show at Art.i.factory, I decided to bring back my two older designs “We are breaking up” + “I am melting” along with a painted image of how our planet has been warming up, that I created for my climate change themed zine series SHE IS RESTLESS vol. 12 warming. Instead of screen printing the t-shirts, I decided to hand paint all of them. I like the watered down, almost watercolor look and feel that you can get by watering down screen printing inks. It’s pretty hard to control on fabric, but I love how it looks. They are all a little bit different as well. After the ink dried, I ironed each one to set the ink, as well as dried in high heat, and then washed and dried again. So they are all ready to wear!

Here are some photos of the finished t-shirts:

climate change t shirts - rebecca mir grady
climate change t shirts - rebecca mir grady
climate change t-shirts - rebecca mir grady

If you’re in Santa Fe this Saturday, I’d love to see you at the opening!

New Year’s Revolution - A Group Show of Wearable Art

January 19, 2019 4-7pm

at Art.I.Fact

930 Baca St. Suite C, Santa Fe, New Mexico

with work by yours truly, Drew MC, Moira Garcia, Collageouflage, Jade Seven, Tim Reed, Isreal Faros Lopez, and Niomi Fawn

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