Teller Thomas

2 months ago | family.style | Sophia Roe |Teller Thomas |Beverly Nguyen

Whenever she is feeling homesick, Ambera Wellman whips up a toast recipe with what some might call an unconventional topping—creamed peas. This savory, gravy-style take on mashed peas was an economic and filling staple for the painter while she was growing up in rural Nova Scotia.

2 months ago | family.style | Teller Thomas |Sophia Roe |Beverly Nguyen |Felicity Carter

Older than the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum combined, and five years the Met’s senior, the Brooklyn Museum celebrates its 200th anniversary this month. To celebrate its landmark birthday, the New York museum is debuting a three-chapter group show, “Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200”—which opens this week. Organized by the museum’s Meghan Bill, the exhibition celebrates the borough's past, present, and future with works that span over five centuries.

Jan 22, 2025 | family.style | Teller Thomas |Emily Simon |Qingyuan Deng |Edward Bowleg III

Clothes shrink and disappear under the unforgiving, white-hot summer sun. But for the whimsical and inspired, the bone-dry heat is no match for the fantasy of getting dolled up. Wools, gowns, hats, tinsel, and sequins are, after all, a glamorous barrier against sunburn—and when the Mediterranean breeze rolls into the eastern coast, they rustle, billow, and glisten to the rhythm of castanets in the distance.

Jan 22, 2025 | family.style | Sahir Ahmed |Teller Thomas |Emily Simon

The month was January 1972; Nixon was in office, and the U.S. was pulling troops from Vietnam; the Equal Rights Amendment was moving through Congress; and Title IX, prohibiting sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs, was on the horizon. In a matter of months, feminist Gloria Steinem would launch the inaugural issue of Ms. Magazine, cementing the rise of second-wave feminism.

Jan 22, 2025 | family.style | Teller Thomas |Emily Simon

Six disembodied Victorian-style gowns, semi-transparent and ethereally green, hovering in place across the floor of Europa gallery bring to mind a gothic novel-type haunting, spectral and delicate. But for Brandon Morris, the eerie scene took shape out of a formidable technical challenge. ‍During his final year as a fashion design major at Parsons, Morris envisioned crafting a series of “freestanding” dresses. The issue? “I didn’t know how I would do it,” says the 24-year-old artist.