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(For Yourself and Your Friends!)
Double
fun: give a present that generates income for a talented
artisan while it delights the person who receives it!
The elegant Weavers
Studio in Calcutta sells fine antique and contemporary
hand-woven textiles from the 14th through 21st centuries. The
studio also runs Art Camps and a vocational training program for
earthquake victims in Gujarat. |
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Spanish
Market celebrates the rich Hispanic culture of Northern New Mexico
July 30th and 31st, 2005. The oldest and largest exhibition |
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When the Indian
Market, Santa Fe, happens (check website for dates) an estimated
100,000 visitors converge on the downtown plaza. Buyers, collectors
and gallery owners buy directly from the artists: a rare opportunity
to meet them and learn first hand about |
Sharon
Christovich, who has pitch-perfect taste, owns the The
Folk Art Gallery, San Rafael, California and merchandises
the store at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco.
Her galleries are full of treasures from all over the world that
range from whimsical holiday ornaments to fabulous hand loomed
rugs. |
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Before co-founding Novica, Armenia Nercessian de Oliveira was a United Nations officer working to resolve conflicts and defend human rights in war-torn countries. Her company, which is now partly owned by National Geographic, is an online agent for 2,000 artisans in countries around the world. Visitors to the Novica.com site can read about the artists, explore their cultures, view photographs of their work and select from more than 17,000 handcrafted works. Novica’s office staff (in El Salvador, Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Thailand, Venezuela and Zimbabwe) interview each artist, photograph their artwork, post the interviews and photographs online, and handle all packing and shipping on behalf of the artist. International couriers deliver the artwork directly to customers, eliminating numerous middlemen and transferring the savings to creator and customer alike. MORE |
Women
(and men) artisans from many countries demonstrate and sell
their crafts at the International Folk Art Market in Santa
Fe, New Mexico sponsored by the Museum of International Folk Art. (Check website for dates.) |
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Women who do embroidery
in Gujarat India provide their fine work to Banascraft
to sell. But you don’t have to go to Ahmedabad to buy; it’s
also on line. Gujarat is one of the richest sources of folk embroidery
in the world, and these women, all members of the Self Employed
Women's Association (the largest trade union in India--all its
members are women) are among the most talented of all. |
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Artist
and art historian Victoria Scott lived in Nigeria for ten years
and started Black Art Studio in Santa
Fe, New Mexico to promote Oshogbo art and facilitate workshops and
performances. She sometimes leads trips to Nigeria, focusing on
textiles and art in Lagos, Oshogbo, Ogidi in Kogi State and Abuja. |
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Ten
Thousand Villages runs 180 stores in North America. Since
1946, they have been devoted to providing indigent third world artisans,
who are mostly women, with as much of the proceeds from indigenous
handicraft sales as possible. To eliminate the many costly middle-men
who skim artisan’s profits, members of the Mennonite and Brethren
in Christ churches run the operation— as volunteers. |
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Maria “Lilly”
Salvador is owner/potter-in-residence at Lilly’s
Gallery on the Acoma Indian Reservation in Acoma New Mexico.
Her fine work tells beautiful stories, and she will describe each
of them for you in words that may bring tears to your eyes. Her
card says “handmade, hand painted with natural earth materials,”
and her connection to Mother Earth is powerful and infectious. |
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