Lucuma Gallery Gourd Art

Artizan Made: a collective of handmade shops from around the world!

 

Honoring the past, we use familiar tools to innovate and look to the future. A world that embraces handmade also cares about sustainability, quality of life and beauty.

Artizan Made connects our shop members to a community that shares a passion for the techniques and training that inform the best of handmade.

Our Market links member products to their shops on Etsy or their own sites.

 

Sweetbriar Studio Art - Farm Girl Planter
Sweetbriar Studio Art – Farm Girl Planter

“I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.”
― Barbara Kingsolver


 

All of our members have been vetted based on talent and professionalism. Connect with them and shop with confidence!

Located in Paducah, Kentucky, USA, with an International membership.

Join Creative PlaceMakers, our sister site.

Creatives standing tall for creativity, the environment, diversity, and equality!  

 

Creative PlaceMakers
Creative PlaceMakers

 

If you are a creative who believes in supporting diversity, equity and inclusion and also care about the environment, join our sister site, Creative PlaceMakers!  Stand up and be seen on our map.  Share it with your friends.  It’s one way that we can show resistance to what is happening now and we do it through our creative assets, our strengths in building and our joy of sharing this planet with all of its people, creatures and plants.  Membership is only $25/yr!

 


Visit our Artizans:

Barbetta Lockart Contemporary Art and ITSA Studio

Mixed Media artist - international textiles, beads, and jewelry - Sacramento, California, USA

FeltUA

Luxurious Nuno Felt Shawls - Ukraine

Tija Crochet

Tapestry crochet accessories and home décor - Latvia

Spake Glass

Hand blown glass by Thomas Spake, Tennessee, USA.

Laura Lee Burch Textile Art

Needle felt sculptures, paintings and patterns. Israel

SuiteVirginia

Upcycled garments, accessories and art - California printer and fashion designer

It’s Cactus

Fair Trade Haitian Metal Work

Knot Just Hats

Fair Isle and cable knitting in hats, socks, sweaters and more.

Afghan Tribal Arts

Gemstone beads, vintage textiles, tribal rugs and décor from Central Asia.

Bone Carving Art

Viking inspired carvings in bone, horn and antler - Ukraine

Elliott Glass Art

California, USA - Glass Artist.

Gone Rustic Studio

Botanical dyes in wearables and art. Tasmania, Australia.

From Our Market:  Harvest Celebration!

Featuring our Orange Category

From Our Blog

Halloween or Day of the Dead? Costumes from the past.

When I was a kid, 50 years ago now, Halloween was a fun but strange time.  I grew up in Brazil where All Saints Day was celebrated with visits to the cemeteries, but people did not dress up. There were about 20 American and Canadian missionary families in our city and we went to a…

Harvest: handmade metal, ceramics, glass, textiles and gourds

Featured image: Lucuma Gallery Gourd Art It’s September, harvest time in the United States.  I’ve been thinking of small family farms, big corporate farming, my farmer grandparents, growing your own food, and the man made crisis we are walking in to as crops rot in the fields. I saw this artist on Instagram and immediately…

Handmade Summer Fashion!

It’s been a hot and muggy summer here in Kentucky, USA, and I’m at war with my yard.  It’s a large property with a lot of grass and if people stopped mowing here, we would become a tropical forest in no time…  So, many of my days have meant t-shirts and shorts, sweating so much…

Bulgarian Weaving Heritage: From Grandfather to Grandaughter

Silvia Hara weaves tapestries, paints and plays Bulgarian folk music.  Her life as an artist came naturally for her as her grandfather was an acclaimed textile designer who inspired her journey.  You can learn more about her on her profile, her website and on our sister site, Creative PlaceMakers, where you can zoom in and…

The Value of Upcycling in our Handmade Community

Our Artizan Shops are vetted in based on the quality of their products along with their professional presentation. But, we also have a great interest in promoting products that have sustainability at the core of their creation. I have always felt somewhat of a disconnect between what I do and what I believe in. Basically,…

Goldin Fellowship, Creative Cities and Artizan Made

The Goldin Institute has two projects, both aimed at training community organizers at effectively creating change by amplifying assets that are already found there.  The first project is in Chicago, where Goldin is based, largely dedicated to peace building.  The second one has a Global focus. Both have 20 Fellows who go through a curriculum…

Floral Category: Blooms of Beauty

Flowers have been a favorite motif ever since humans started decorating surfaces. Archeologists have found pottery, wooden carvings, woven remnants, and jewelry with ancient floral designs. And, why not? Once humans went beyond the function of something they made, they felt compelled to decorate it. This eventually became stylized into a language of its own…

Embroidery as Storytelling

We're featuring our Market Categories here on our blog to give them some context, some history...  Embroidery is one of those vast categories as there are so many different techniques that go back in time for centuries. For this post, I thought it would be interesting to explore how embroidery has been used for storytelling.…

Animals Category: Mythology, Totems, Spirit Guides, Popular Culture and Best Friends

Our Animals Category is one of my favorites! They show up in all kinds of products, from cute and funny to mythical and strange. Humans have had a close connection to animals since the beginning of recorded history.  In 1940, four teenage boys went looking for a lost dog and stumbled on to the discovery…


Laura Lee Burch Needle Felt
Laura Lee Burch Needle Felt

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“That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.”
― Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories