Nice Shades

10/20/2025

Turn up the 🔥- these shades and more available now in shop @ https://niceshades.art

10/04/2025

Gettin' back on the train!

08/25/2023

Stocking up for ! One week from now the show will be on the road!

08/04/2023

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the life of Altina “Tina" Schinasi, an American artist, designer, and inventor most known for designing the Harlequin eyeglass frame - known today as the widely popular "cat-eye" eyeglass frame.

Schinasi also patented several other inventions throughout her career and produced documentaries.
Schinasi was born on this day in 1907 in Manhattan, New York to immigrant parents. Her mother was a native of Salonica (then in the Ottoman Empire) and her father was a Sephardic Jewish Turk. After graduating high school, Schinasi studied painting in Paris, which sparked her appreciation for the arts.
Once back in the US, she studied art at The Art Students League in New York and took a position as a window dresser for multiple stores on Fifth Avenue. During this time, she found herself working with and learning from prominent artists she admired such as Salvador Dali and George Grosz. Happy birthday to Tina, I don’t know where I’d be with out you!

07/02/2023

We roaming out here! We’ll be at Big Meadow at 2pm for - come say hey!

06/19/2023

03/13/2023

Now in the shop at www.niceshades.art - I’m on a butterfly kick, spring must be in the air!

03/07/2023

Monarch butterflies, now in the shop (link in bio)

03/03/2023

Sneak peek at some of the that will be available at starting this weekend! Every pair is one of a kind so get yours before they’re gone…

02/03/2023

Happy Friday y’all! Fresh shades just added to the shop, link in bio!

02/02/2023

I’ve applied for a trademark on “Nice Shades” with the USPTO! This is the list of categories they are associating me with. Look out for a new line of Nice Shades monocles coming soon! 🤣 .