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I love God 1st, my family, helping people, and being creative. I believe my creative ability is a gift from God. I love sharing my creation with the world. I have been creating unique items for over 30 years, and everything I create I put time and love into it. I have always love fashion as far as I can remember. My mother would take me clothes shopping all the time, and I just always love looking at fashion, and putting it on. I like anything to do with fashion, hair, makeup, shoes, handbags, and nails. Also I love coming up with my own styles, that total look different from any one else. Fashion will all ways be in my blood. I believe when you wear different pieces of fashion it make you feel different, it makes you feel good. You know what I mean ladies, when you get your hair done, your nails, put on your makeup, and put on that new pair of shoes that match the cute outfit you just purchase. Wow! you feel good. I hope that you enjoy yourself when you are looking around in my shop, and I hope that you find something you like. Thanks for your time, God bless you and yours, stay positive, and please have fun shopping.

Sara Hunter is an imaginative watercolorist, and potter who is driven by an incredible passion for self-expression through art. Her works are often noted for their unique style, elegance, and technique. Sara has developed an innovative style that blends abstract geometrical patterns with whimsical designs. Her use of vibrant colors and strong lines make her work an excellent choice for a wide range of projects and purposes. Each art piece is made with white earthenware clay and is fired in the kiln for its first firing. After the first firing, Sara hand paints each design with lead free underglaze paints and glazes. After it has been glazed, the art piece is put back in the kiln for its second firing. VOILA! A beautiful Fun…Functional…Fabulous… art piece is born. To care for each piece, hand washing is preferred so that it will continue to be as beautiful today and forever. Her art pieces have been featured in galleries across the United States. Sara's pottery has also appeared in numerous commercials, news programs and magazines.

Hi! I am Alexis Miller and the founder of Inspirado. After a career in finance in New York City, I set out to make premium products that incorporated beautiful design with powerful words and images. Inspirado (Spanish for “Inspired”) was born out of the desire to be reminded of our own potential and power within. Inspiration is contagious and it is mutually beneficial whenever we come into contact with someone that is living an inspired lifestyle. These products are designed to remind us of our youthful energy, inner resilience, and our natural talents. Let Inspirado items assist you in changing habits and taking calculated risks leading to new discoveries. Be motivated as you conquer new heights in your personal and professional life. Whether you want to grow your business or grow your soul, jump higher on the field or overcome obstacles in the workplace, Inspirado products will help be the voice providing that extra nudge that you need to achieve greatness. Greatness lives in us all and there is no reason to live an uninspired life. Let an inspirational or motivational poster, shower curtain, pillow, mug, or wood etching help you be inspired daily!

My name is Lewis Derogene, first name pronounced as Louise and I’m known under the moniker, PhenomenaLewis. I am a multimedia artist born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti based between both Connecticut and New York. I graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2019 with my BFA in Fine Arts. My mediums range from photography, performance art, drawing, sculpture, and installation art, but the latter of them stem from my poetry which will later turn into preparatory sketches before evolving into their final form. I’m greatly inspired by Dutch painter Rembrandt in which I used his style of extreme contrast exaggerating my lights and shadows to isolate and bring focus to my subject matter(s). I label myself as Afro Cogitatio, afro being the root and descendent of Africa and cogitatio being the latin word for my thoughts, meditations, or reflections. This terminology is also my guide towards better understanding my ideas, myself, and the reasoning behind both my ideas and myself; how they correlate and how I can express them to reflect the individual (myself) and a collective (a group of people that I relate to or vice versa). There’s a beauty and ugliness to learning more about your mental health as a Black person anywhere around the world. It involves breaking down systemic barriers that contribute to your mental health deteriorating and learning how to take the steps towards healing. A lot of those learning and unlearning steps revolve around the influences of spirituality, politics, sociology and other factors. I try to use these influences subtly in my artwork, but what I try to convey or capture in the single moment of bliss through my self portrait photographs that can appear so sublime even though underneath there is a layer of pain and suffering. It’s a cover which a lot of us use and go through to not fully expose our suffering to the world, and make it seem that we are strong enough to carry on with our daily lives. We tend to hide our pain and suffering with things that normally make us extremely happy, but it’s only a percentage of it while the rest: our depression, anxiety, or any negative thoughts does not allow these “things” to make us completely happy. They’re the barriers that we try to push and eliminate by ignoring them. Overtime, I’ve struggled to know what my focus was within my art practice and realized that no matter how I word it, whether it’s the “state of being human,” to the “understanding of the self,” it all has to do with mental health or just the mind. Being a Haitian (labeled Black in America) woman, I want to base my artwork on the experience of that mental health in the Black community, mainly all Black women and I mean all. I want to inspire conversations to go deeper than the surface area of asking a Black person how they’re doing, how they’re feeling and actually start to uncover layers of trauma, of silence, of pain that they can’t uncover themselves to help them towards healing. To put on a facade of being okay dampens those layers causing them to meld over into one confusing story that when asked again, how they’re doing, will not be able to answer because they won’t know for sure. Within my new discovered journey of identifying my art practice better, I find it better to start with myself hence my self portrait series, but I plan to and already started to implement others and their stories.

Sammie & Dannie is a family owned vintage boutique in Phoenix offering clothing, accessories, furniture, and home goods. We’re known for having timeless pieces all handpicked by us! Whether you’re looking to be sophisticated or to dress yourself down, we got you covered. We even have furniture too! Our name comes from us, sisters sharing clothes. Growing up with a single mom, we shared a lot of clothes and often shopped second hand. As we got older our mother taught us about sustainability and fashion. Rather than throwing clothing into a landfill, garments can be recycled, repaired, reused or redesigned. We value sustainable fashion and sisterhood! The phrase “it takes a village” came in full effect growing up with a single parent. There are so many women that supported us along the way, we consider these women our sisters. Sammie and Dannie wouldn’t be where it is today without the help of others. So while educating and encouraging people about sustainable fashion, we also hope to be outlet for women. We offer a fun intimate shopping experience where people feel inspired not just with their style, but in life!

As a natural overflow of the River that is Sacred Vibes Apothecary, Sacred Botanica, is a new retail and education space dedicated to growing my work as a Plant Teacher, Astrologer and Medicine Woman. I’m so excited to honor my ancestors and step forward fully in creating a space that magnifies their blessing, intent for my life, and a meeting of our desires. The Botanica is a few blocks away from the Apothecary purposefully to maintain the synergy between the two spaces.

xN Studio is a lifestyle. Without borders. Founded in Brooklyn, NY in 2011 by DC-area native Nasozi Kakembo, our multi-disciplinary creative studio resides at the intersection of classic and modern, East and West, innovative and subdued. We express our ethos in how we adorn our sacred spaces, whether those be our homes, our workspaces, or elsewhere. Traditional and timeworn textiles and techniques are the foundation of all of our collections, and from there, we modify the applications and functions to suit a modern and borderless lifestyle. Our furniture and approach to design is intended to suit multiple purposes—our aesthetic signals a practical departure from the expected. The mudcloth and indigo pillows, and Fair Trade collections from Uganda have grown to become the keystone of our work. All of our work is proudly made on the east coast of the United States or in Africa, primarily Uganda where we work work traditional artisans to develop products for e-commerce, wholesale and interior design projects. Nasozi Kakembo is the founder and creative force behind xN Studio. She graduated in 2008 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). Her company name derives from her very own, which is a Ugandan name meaning something to look up to in praise of. Born and raised outside of Washington, DC, and a Brooklynite for 12 years Nasozi founded xN Studio in 2011. For the greater part of a decade, she worked in the international human rights and social justice fields, meanwhile indulging in African textiles by night. She still incorporates the fundamental principles of her extensive international experience into her business model. Her Ugandan and American heritage as well as her studies in art history, architecture, and eventually human rights have landed her in the far reaches of the world. She currently resides in the DC-Baltimore area and splits her time between there, Brooklyn, and her home in Kampala, Uganda.

Phoebe Collings-James’ work often eludes linear retellings of stories. Instead, her works function as what she calls “emotional detritus”: they speak of knowledges of feelings, the debris of violence, language and desire which are inherent to living and surviving within hostile environments. Recent works have been dealing with the object as subject, giving life and tension to ceramic forms. As young nettle, a musical alias, she loves sound that totally envelopes her and is part of B.O.S.S., a QTIBIPOC sound system based in South London. Drawn to high octane sensual emotional sound, with heavy bass and wild lyrical flows. She has played in clubs, museums and house parties, alongside making original music productions. Including Sounds 4 Survival, an undulating live performance work created with SERAFINE1369, which asks the question of what an anti-assimilationist practice might look and sound like.

UTILITY OBJECTS IS AN ATLANTA BASED POTTERY DESIGN STUDIO. Since 2018, Aleisha Ellis has been designing and making a line of minimal ceramic tableware. These objects draw inspiration from modern works of Japanese ceramics resulting in pieces that highlight functionality and the natural beauty of raw clay. Starting as a hobbyist potter, Aleisha transitioned the brand of Utility Objects in the summer of 2020 into a pottery design studio. She now works full-time as a production potter in hopes to master the craft of pottery. FEATURES -- Her work has been showcased at Swan Coach Gallery in Atlanta and shared amongst publications such as: New York Magazine, Architectural Digest, Ceramic Review London, and West Elm where she has been taken on as an artisan maker.

Domonique is a contemporary pop artist from Pomona, California. She creates energetic portraits that defy traditional pictorial representations. As an illustrator, she works from the ground up, layering markers and acrylic strokes until she carves out a colorful portrait. Domonique’s art is a celebration of diversity. Her portraits showcase men and women of color, so people can see a depiction of their identity and feel empowered.