Our Vendors
Photo by Lisa K. Smith
Photo by Lisa K. Smith
ChocoChalski
Cristina Michalski was born in Morelia, México where she started her training in dance at age 5. After going to fashion school in Monterrey, Mexico and finding her love for illustration she moved to NYC where she continued her training as a dancer, and started a small collaboration with her sister Karla Choko and kept doing illustration but also transferring some of those illustrations into prints in shirts.
Together they are trying to make ChokoChalski grow and have projects that focus on helping endangered animals.
Raise The Bar (Coolinary Kitchen)
Coolinary Kitchen is made up of the two passions of Natalie Cruz: working with children and creating scrumptious meals in the kitchen. Natalie has been working closely with children for the last decade and has been creating in the kitchen for longer.
Besides making delicious food, cooking enables children to work on their fine motor skills (chopping, opening jars/lids, hand and eye coordination), early math skills (counting, measuring etc.), science skills (temperature, cause/effect, chemistry) and so much more.
Coolinary Kitchen believes bringing children into the kitchen gives them a boost of self-esteem, feeling of accomplishment and a new outlet for creativity.
https://www.facebook.com/CoolinaryKitchen?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
Queens88
Queens88
Queens88 is a clothing company founded by artist, Christina Prudenti in 2008. Her clothing reflects where she comes from; a grass roots clothing label where she screen prints, stencils, and paints all of her own designs herself giving each one its own character and identity.
She uses clothing as her canvas. Each design is unique reflecting her surroundings, which she considers being full of color and noise. Learning to print shirts was a completely organic process that she taught herself from a kit out of a box. She paints most of her screens freehand with images inspired by life around her, music, art, street art, poetry, travel, love, love lost, her personal paintings and photographs. It’s the strange and unpredictable happenings of life that keep her designs fresh and authentic.
Due to a legal discrepancy, queens77 is now queens88. Same everything, different name. queens88 offers wearable art for women, men and kids. Each piece is made in America with water based ecofriendly ink out of her studios in Queens and Brooklyn.
Nena's Cupcakes & Goodies
Nena's Cupcakes & Goodies Created in 2013 by Anika Tifft.
Inspired by Anika's one eyed cat, Nena, the name was born.
Anika started baking gluten free/vegan in 2012 when she found out about numerous allergies she was faced with and struggled to find foods that were gluten free/vegan without masses of sugar. Nena's strives to bake the best gluten free using organic ingredients and only non refined sugars such as pure maple syrup and organic coconut palm sugar, both low glycemic sweeteners.
The company is still very small, working out of Anika's kitchen in Astoria, NY, creating orders for local people and friends, as well as selling goodies at some events at Sol Dance Center.
Nena hopes you find her treats exciting. She is always happy to meet
more gluten free friends!
BecauseOfYouOrganics
I am mother, wife and business woman. After the birth of my son I became obsessed trying to find the best chemical free moisturizer for his skin, I grew frustrated as I was not successful in my quest and so I decided to take matters in my own hands. That’s when Because Of You Organics began! I enjoy using organic vitamin rich ingredients to make chemical free moisturizers for the skin and not have to worry about any cancer forming ingredients sitting on the surface of my skin or seeping in my pores. BecauseOfYouOrganics skin care products are made with strictly organic ingredients for ALL ages & skin types. It is so safe it can even be used on newborns as well. You have NO WORRIES when you moisturize your skin with BecauseOfYouOrganics skin care products!
The Lisa y Josué guitar duo has performed at the Aurora gallery in Chelsea, and had the honor of giving the first concert for the inaugural of its LIC location in 2009, entitled "Guitarrazón" (the way, or logic of the guitar). Lisa Spraragen is a classical guitarist who also plays and dances flamenco. Josué Perez is a guitarist and composer from Puerto Rico. He was commissioned to write and perform a solo guitar score for Sam Shepard's premiere of Eyes for Consuela at the Manhattan Theater Club, and has written many pieces for guitar which are featured on the duo's CD's. They have recorded five CD's together, the latest, Cantando así released on Nov. 24, 2014, features the tenor Ángel Feliciano with whom they have been working since 2013. Performances include Merkin Concert Hall, The Theater at Madison Sq. Garden, Columbia University, The National Opera Center, The Rubin Museum and Radio WADO, and Channel 13 City Arts.
Lisa y Josué - Guitar Duo
Stone Cottage Soapworks Inc. was established in 2003. We are a small company that focuses on handcrafted products. There are no animal by-products used in our manufacturing and we self-test all products before we sell them. We specialize in soap scents that are unusual and unique as well as bringing you some more familiar fragrances. Each soap is produced in small batches of 48 or 96 bars. The freshly made soap is cut into bars and allowed to cure for 30 to 60 days. The bars are then hand trimmed, polished and boxed and our bars weigh approximately 4-4.5 oz or more dependent upon additives weight.
http://stonecottagesoapworks.com/
Stone Cottage Soapworks
Baby Glyph
Baby Glyph was inspired by the owners own little rock star. These original designs are simple and funky and perfect for the kiddo who is too cool for colors like baby blue and passive pink. Rock out your baby with these fashionable baby tees!
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Masha LunaRa is an up and coming New York designer who creates tribal hair accessories, hair jewelry and limited edition of wearable art pieces. - See more at: http://stylingon.com/blog/lunara-up-coming-new-york-designer. Masha grew up in the Siberian forest, Taiga, surrounded by beautiful Mountains of Altai, which is where her influence came from. She has also traveled all around the world, and it has been her dream to create a line of Lunara Design hair accessories. The last eight years, she has been living in New York, and working on her designs. - See more at: http://stylingon.com/blog/lunara-up-coming-new-york-designer. People who rock Lunara Design are intrigued by the spiritual attributes of her designs. Inspired by Nature, different Gem stones are used as well as wood, pearls, Swarovski crystals and other antique attributes. The designer also incorporates recycled leather and feathers.
http://stylingon.com/blog/lunara-up-coming-new-york-designer/