Business
BY SARAH HERNANDEZ
Raw Paw creates clothing and merchandise for other creatives and brands.
Raw Paw moved its operations to The Yard in the St. Elmo Arts District in 2015 after operating out of a home in Del Valle.
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Artist-run Raw Paw providing screen printing services
The goal of Raw Paw co-owners, Chris Dock, Kyle Carter and Jen Rachid, is to help other artists. How it started Dock was a graphic design student at The Uni- versity of Texas in the late 2000s when a professor introduced him to Carter, who was studying printmaking. He met Rachid, a photographer, who introduced him to more young artists. “We did so many things,” Dock said. “We would throw art shows and music shows, and then we put together a record label with some of our music friends and tried that out. Then we did a newspaper, we made books—we made all kinds of products.”
What they o er Today, the screen printing shop occupies a suite in The Yard in South Austin and creates clothing and merchandise for other creatives and brands. Dock said their core products are apparel like shirts, totes and bandanas. Raw Paw also hosts Design Challenges a few times a year, which are open calls for art where artists can submit a design and market it on a T-shirt for a chance to have it printed and sold on Raw Paw’s website. “It’s a really nice feeling to create something and be like, ‘I’m passionate about this thing,’ and then, ‘Oh, now there’s more of it and other people have it,’” Dock said.
Chris Dock (left) and Kyle Carter met in the late 2000s.
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