Introducing our 2021 Craft Vendors!
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- Copalli Mexican Folk Art
- Treasures of the Jersey Shore
- Anatolia Art and Craft Studio
- Space Waraku
The New Jersey Folk Festival has always supported a vibrant craft path as part of our Rutgers Day event. For our Virtual Festival this year, we are featuring a limited number of vendors on our website as we build the online presence of the festival and test new methods of jurying and presenting artists. We hope you enjoy learning about some of our distinctive and unique vendors. Please follow links to their own website or sales platforms to purchase their goods.
Copalli Mexican Folk Art
copallimexfolkart.com | @mexfolkart
Copalli Mexican Folk Art is an art collective operated out of New York City that offers a wide variety of handcrafted items across various states and artforms of Mexico, as well as from Mexican artisans in the United States. They usually operate as a pop-up shop, going around New York City to display all their art, which range from jewelry to bags and facemasks. Danny Tepi, one of their featured artists, is well known for his jewelry, which features modern spins on traditional Mexican designs.
Treasures of the Jersey Shore
treasuresofthejerseyshore.com
Treasures of the Jersey Shore, which has been featured at the New Jersey Folk Festival since 2015, is a family-business owned and operated by husband and wife team John and Patricia Kingman that specializes in Wampum jewelry, a type of jewelry made from the shell of the quahog, a hard shell clam found along the North Atlantic coast. Wampum shells have been as adornments in Native and Idengenous cultures, and have a rich and deep history for tribes along the Northeastern part of the United States.
Anatolia Art and Craft Studio
anatoliaartcraft.com | @ylvia_asal_of_anatolia
Ylvia Asal, a mixed media/textile artist specializing in Oya, a traditional lace making technique from the Black Sea of Turkey, is the owner of Anatolia Art and Craft Studio. Her studio serves, not only as a place for her to create artwork that will be displayed and sold across New Jersey, but also as a space to teach her students a wide range of artistic disciplines, ranging from Oya, crocheting and “erbu”, a traditional technique of Turkish marbling.
Space Waraku
thespacewaraku.com
This year, the New Jersey Folk Festival is proud to present Space Waraku, a business specializing in origami and traditional Japanese paper arts. Space Waraku, owned and operated by Itoko Kobayashi who specializes in 3D origami, has been participating with the festival since 2011. Origami is a traditional East Asian technique, mostly associated with Japanese culture, of folding paper into intricate patterns and designs, most of which are centered around nature and other significant symbolism to Japanese culture.