Wednesday, November 26, 2014

BESPOKE: HARLEM'S NEW POTTERY SCENE



Sunday, November 30th, Sugar Hill Market x La Maison d'Art, within the brownstone garden gallery and parlour floor at 259 West 132nd Street just east of FDB/8th Avenue from 11:00AM-6:00PM.  We have been curating Sugar Hill Market since the beginning of the year and in the process have come up with a local scene of great ceramic artists.  The founder of Kuzeh pottery who specializes in bold but modern ethnic patterns from the middle east approached us first and then had fellow potter Tina Chiu join the team which eventually was featured in a New York magazine article about uptown's clay collective.  Sometimes over the summer, Jonathan Castro found the SHM page via Instagram and joined on after having spent the past 5 years going to artist markets in Brooklyn to sell his goods.  These trips usually took an hour on the train with the collection in tow so having a forum to connect with local Harlem customers was a very auspicious event indeed.

With that all said,  the team here has an expansive line of unique goods each made by the artists' own hands and are really quite a good idea for gift giving.  The holiday market starts this Sunday and is a great alternative to going to all those mainstream corporate companies so please do drop by!

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