Austin Kowal (born October 19, 1985) is an American artist and entrepreneur located in
Sarasota,
Florida.
At age 16, Kowal began designing apparel and jewelry and by the time he was 19 years old, he had taught himself
screen printing
Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mes ...
and had founded
Clothesline Creative, a clothing company based in
Sarasota. Kowal's company has provided design and printing services to businesses throughout Florida and the United States and frequently has made
in-kind donations to local charities and
grassroots initiatives in the Sarasota community.
Kowal also is head of the "Going Vertical" division of the
Sarasota Chalk Festival to which artists are invited from all over the world in order to paint murals during the annual festival,
and he regularly is associated with the special events related to the festival.
References
1985 births
Living people
American graffiti artists
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