Support Puerto Rican Local Artisans and Artists. Since 2015
We created this list on 2015 to support some local friends while I moved to the Diaspora. Then we fixed it in 2017 to give options to people that were still wondering ways to support Puerto Rico’s recovery journey after Hurricane María in 2017. Then the Earthquakes happened, and the politicians kept stealing from our people, and I dont have to go into details how COVID-19 hasn’t been any different. It has impacted our communities in the island that had barely time to recover one tragedy after the other.
We highly recommended back then, and still today, to consider buying your holiday gifts, crafts, comics, bags, clothes and general “Made in Puerto Rico” items directly from artists and artisans in the Island.
In order to make this possible, in Mama Aicha Mujer Montuna we kept posting directly on our page since 2017 all the amazing artisst that have crossed our path. We posted weekly links and items from Puerto Rican Artisans and Artists that were selling their beauties online and you could consider for your holiday gifts. Today we have them all on this written piece and we keep adding every year.
Supporting them helps support our economy, our families and our island general recovery. We are living in austerity times and our people are struggling not only with what María, Earthquakes or COVID left of us or didn’t, but with a government that is selling every inch of us.
Buy straight from our people, not from corporations. This is another way to resist! #ShopSmall We can brake up with that toxic Amazon relationship little by little. #SupportOurArtisans #SupportOurSmallBusinesses
Know any artists you want to see in this list? Send them our way at jcruz.tsalud@gmail.com and we will post them all.
<3
Jacoba
List of Artists:
One of our favorites of all time, Soda Pop Comics. They are the first female owned comic studio in Puerto Rico. They have cute comics and art pieces for your walls. See some of their merchandise here, follow them on Instagram . email: sodapopcomics@gmail.com sodapopcomicspr.com
Taller 3 Generaciones. Taller 3Generaciones wants, through love of sewing, to work with textiles to give them shape and life. Look at their Facebook page, and look how cute their work
Uca_Decal_Ceramics. Beautiful necklaces!!! Tropical pottery•flowers & other things•waves contact info - xyloart.pr@gmail.com .Santurce. Follow them on Instagram
Taller Re-Evolución. Handmade leather goods. Check’em out at Facebook and their amazing work:
Pikaras Pink. Look for beautiful African turbans at Facebook . n. pl. pi·ca·ras (-räz′, -räs′) Turban by Pikaras1. A woman who is a rogue or adventurer. 2. The main character in a picaresque novel when that character is a woman or girl.
Aniwa!!!! Look at this beautiful jewelry workshop made completely by hand. Using mainly Bronze metal integrating feathers, leather and stones.
Tereques la Tiendita. Tereques. things; gear (familiar). Hand made “things” in Puerto Rico. It is a group of marvelous people. Meet them at their Facebook page.
Fluffy Fitteds. See the cuteness at their page. Warning of cuteness overload!! Cover cloth diapers, Pocket, Trainer, water diapers, night solutions, reusable menstruation towels, accessories and more.
Taller la Borincana. Did you ask for Puerto Rican masks? Minerva offers you an interesting mix of them. She says, “We work masks and vejigantes, We use fig, cardboard, marimba, foam, wood and seeds among other things to create Puerto Rican Crafts”. See them all here!
Perfectamente Imperfectas: las pantallas de papel reciclado de Mariel Torres Lara (recycled paper earrings!!)
Girasoles Creative Studio es un estudio creativo dónde las ideas convergen para la creación y diseño de arte, con el propósito de visibilizar historias e iniciativas que esbozan otros mundos posibles
Nuyorican Básquet tells the dramatic story of the National Basketball Team of Puerto Rico in 1979, whose players were mostly born or raised in New York. In a historic encounter full of emotions, this team played the final of the XIII Pan American Games against the United States. Twelve athletes, almost all developed hand in hand with African-Americans in Nuyorquino street basketball, become the hope of the Puerto Rican people during the Cold War. With Raymond Dalmau, Georgie Torres, Charlie Bermúdez and Nestor Cora, among others, this documentary portrays the influence of Nuyoricans in national basketball where sport, the diaspora and the complex paths of Puerto Rican identity are intertwined and invite reflection on what is Puerto Rico today.
Esquema Born out of the intersection of minimalism and timelessness, Esquema offers functional concrete designs for your workspace. https://shopesquema.com
Artesanías Yala Was beautiful handmade earrings made with a community of other women. Check out their Facebook page. Their earrings are beautiful and affordable.
EcoTienda La Chiwinha fair trade + eco-friendly + conscientes Con una variedad de productos a la venta desde artesanías hechas a mano para el hogar y tu cuidado personal hasta productos comestibles ecológicos y solidarios, todo para un estilo de vida consciente y holístico. Visita nuestro Online Shop y se parte del colectivo que está haciendo una diferencia por ese otro mundo que todos queremos vivir 🌿. With a variety of products on sale from handcrafted crafts for the home and your personal care to organic and supportive food products, all for a conscious and holistic lifestyle. Visit our Online Shop and be part of the collective that is making a difference for that other world that we all want to live 🌿.
Shop Con Calma. Concalma =”With calm / at ease” Concalma aims to raise awareness of fair trade, the importance of local design and manufacturing as well as promoting sustainable practices. 207 San Francisco Street San Juan, Puerto Rico. (+1) 787 342 9757
Support Artist and Community firece organizer and fighter Juan Pablo Vizcaíno with his project Vejigante. Juanpa has shirts and traditional masks from Puerto Rico. Check it out how beautiful these masks are at http://vejigantes.com.
AgitArte an organization of working class artists and cultural organizers who create projects and practices of cultural solidarity with grassroots struggles. AgitArte is an organization of working class artists and cultural organizers who create projects and practices of cultural solidarity with grassroots struggles against oppression, and propose alternatives that generate possibilities for transformations in our world. We initiate and lead community-based educational and arts programs, along with projects that agitate in the struggles for liberation. IG @agitarteculturalworks Twitter @agitarte info@agitarte.org
