lowwbones

photography and screen printing by process-obsessed, minneapolis-based, disabled tattooed-queer-lady artist, rhys jones. owner/operator/designer/printer/trouble-shooter/hustler/head-witch-in-charge of Lowwbones.

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hey tumblr, long time no see, i know.

i’ve been practically living at my print studio.

but guess what!  i released these tanks for pride in minneapolis last week and now they’re available to the world wide internets. available in sizes XS-2X (though some are out at the momeent cause they sold like hotcakes, but they’ll be reprinted very soon!).

Rainbow Blend & Black/Gold

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the Lowwbones Facebook page is 8 ‘likes’ away from 400... i’m not even sure i even know 400 people?  seems wild. if you’re a facebooker and haven’t already, please consider stopping by and giving us the ol thumbs up... it makes facebooks algorithms pop my posts up more, and i like that. please and thank you.

<3 rhys

Lowwbones on Facebibble 

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Dead Men Don’t Cat Call racerback tank tops are live on Etsy!

Ya’ll asked, I obliged.  And they look awesome.  Printed on super soft and lightweight poly/cotton blend racerback tank tops.

Available in SM MD LG XL 2X

Thanks to Ellie and Teddie for being such babely models for me!

(also if anyone has leads on wholesale shirts of a similar cut/blend in 3X and up, please let me know, i haven’t had much luck in my search thus far, but always want to offer a wide range of size options)

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printing a new run of “dead men don’t cat call” patches at Leg Up Studio in NE Minneapoils today with my suspervisor, Xena.

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SPRING CLEANING CLEARANCE!!!!

www.etsy.com/shop/lowwbones

I’m moving and trying to shrink the amount of stuff I have to pack n move, I’m making room for new designs (!!!), and I’m working on streamlining my offerings (ok and I have to pay double rent in April).  This means that my clearance section is full as heck.

Strange Girls Patches (lots of florals!) - $1.99

Eat LSD, Pray to Satan, Love Nothing - Wendigo - Do Work patches - $1.99

Framed Strange Girls patches - $9.99

Strange Girls T-shirts and tanks and crop tops - $6.99-$9.99

and more!!

for the love of yr hella cute wardrobe, clean me out.

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Help fund Rhys’ senior projects!

Greetings world. After ten years, three drop-outs, and a whole lot of getting my shit together, I've finally made it to my final semester and will be graduating with a Bachelor's in visual art this May (yayyy!). I've got two final projects coming up rapidly, and I need to embrace the age-old tradition of asking my community and art-lovers at large to help me make them happen financially.  $500 is a lot of money for me to pull out of thin air, but in the context of the reach of social media, isn't actually a whole lot. First: I am building a mobile screen printing kit to take with me on the road.  This will include a "surfboard" printing rig and a free-standing exposure unit - each will have their own suitcase outfitted with foam fitted to hold them nice and safe.  The kit will also ideally contain a screen (or two??), and a materials/tool kit.  This is where the bulk of the money will go!  Check out my highly technical specs above.

Second: I will be showing two large scale photographs for my senior exhibition show at the U.  They are from a recent project focused on working with fellow survivors of trauma and abuse around the recovery process and deviation from the prescriptive directive of having to forgive in order to heal and lead a good life.  It's an intensely emotional project and very important to me both as an artist and as a survivor.  I'd like to print these particular portraits larger than life - so money here will go toward the actual printing of the images, as well as the materials to mount them and get them show ready.  You can see examples of my photography work here: www.facebook.com/rhysjonesphotography - though the photos from this current project are not on Facebook. Finally, for those who don't know me already, here's a crash course:

I'm a 27-year-old Milwaukee native who moved to Minneapolis 8-1/2 years ago.  I'm graduating from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities this May and am anxious to go full force at earning a living as a creative and vocational artist.  Besides being a full-time student, I also work in the Photo Crib/Darkroom at school as a work study employee; I run my own screen printing business printing my own original designs (check me out on Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/lowwbones) as well as special orders for bands/musicians, clubs, special events, and other artists; I co-teach a t-shirt screen printing class for at-risk youth with Free Arts MN; and I am an assistant to a well-established local traditional sign painter.  When I'm not doing all of that I hang out with my 3-year-old "pointer bull" service dog, Xena (see above), eat burritos, harbor obsessions with television series, spend time with loved ones, and somehow still find time to sleep.  And to top it all off I have Fibromyalgia, a chronic pain and fatigue disorder that makes that already insane workload that much harder.  I'm passionate and driven, and making a living from my art and creative endeavors is what gets me out of bed every morning.  A donation here isn't just for some singular thing that ends immediately: both of these projects will be carried on well beyond this last semester of school, and I'm really excited to make them happen.

Full campaign link: http://www.gofundme.com/rhysgraduates

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sidekick

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they're live!  just got them all up on etsy!   hand drawn and lettered, and manually screen printed by yours truly, using my buff-ass printmaker's arms.

available in ladies fitted black t-shirts in S M L XL 2X 3X (there will be black unisex tshirts available soon)

it's tax time, i'm moving and security deposits are gonna kill me, and it's totally dreamy to support small queer business/artists.  <3 <3 <3

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Pre-order for the new Lowwbones exclusive "Dead Men Don't Cat Call" design on ladies t-shirts SM-3X is up on Etsy!

I've seen this phrase in a few designs and they've all been too cutesy for my taste, so like, add a skull and stiletto nails and "hey baby" cracked into the forehead and now you've got the Lowwbones version.  Hand drawn and inked by me, and will be screen printed by me as well, using my super buff screen printer muscles.

Pre-order is up til next Monday (1/26), shirts will be printed by 2/7, and then shipped out the following week.  A general listing will be posted thereafter for folks who prefer to wait.

Pre-order here.

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favorite human: check

favorite vest that i've fancied up: double check

one of a kind, size large, hot pink punk vest with hand set cone studs, and original screen printed strange girls never die back patch. for sale on etsy.

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this is my business suit.  self-employment, ftw (and i do mean "fuck the world.").

yesterday was Elements of the Underground Maker's Market, a huge event i've been planning with the owner/curator of the Abstracted Gallery, and it was an amazing success.  over 50+ vendors, 6 hours of local musicians performing, and hundreds of customers and guests.  i am humbled and proud and happy.

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get the strange girls in your life a lil somethin handmade n special for the holidays.  t-shirts, tank tops, crop tops, patches, oh my.

everything is hand-drawn, -designed, and -printed.  lowwbones is an independent, queer woman owned and operated business based in minneapolis, mn.  i’m the one on the far right… ellie, marissa, and mikayla are just a few of the wonderful strange girls my life is made better by.

lowwbones    tumblr - facebook - instagram - etsy

ellie (second from the left) is also a badass ceramicist who you’d also do well to check out: etsy - facebook

support small businesses!  

<3

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I love love love when people send me pictures of what they do with the patches they buy from me. Strange Girls forever and ever! #strangegirls #floral #printmaker #etsy

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my "do work" design has always been important to me both in my personal and professional/artistic life, but it took on a whole other meaning this summer.  my (favorite) grandfather passed away this past august, and the last conversation we ever had was mostly about my art, work, and business.  he not only told me how proud he was of me (big deal for someone who spent their late teens/first half of their twenties fucking up and not doing much of anything worth being proud of) and that he loved my "do work" design (and it was a mantra to him as well), but he also insisted on buying himself one of the do work t-shirts i'd been printing (i'd have given him ten).

he went into the hospital a couple days later and it quickly became apparent that his body had had enough.   his shirt arrived on his doorstep the day he died.  my grandma got it and put it out on his arm chair so she'd see it every time she looked at his chair.

though he never got to wear it, this design is now forever for dad-o. rest in power, old man, i'll keep on doing work knowing you've forever got my back.

(shirts/patches are here) 

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support small business this holiday season!

lowwbones is a one-woman-show, screen printing original designs on shirts and patches by hand. at the helm is me, rhys, owner/operator/designer/printer/troubleshooter/hustler/head-witch-in-charge.  printmaking keeps me buff and happy.

strange girls never die patches and shirts (and a bunch of other designs) are available in my etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/lowwbones

<3<3<3 strange girls forever and ever and ever <3<3<3

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now available in gold, because fucking duh.

$5

available on etsy

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i just feel like you should know that there are only 8 more of these pink floral strange girls patches left and then they're gone forever.  i know that some of ya'll have been waiting, and that's cool, but the time is now, my friend.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/189266868/pink-floral-black-strange-girls-never?

<3 lowwbones

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