SALUD Y ARTE = SaludArte! A History

Neighbors JulieTodd & Keyla Rodriguez started SaludArte in 2015 in our apartment building on Kent St. in Lawrence, MA. Julie made aromatherapy products and Keyla created all kinds of visual art items. With a few other friends, we used Julie's Apartment, made tea, and invited our friends and family to come and purchase our handmade, homemade items, healing products and services for the holidays. It was equal parts open house and shop-local holiday fair. We have grown every year since then, holding the event in person at Julie’s place. 2020 caused us to innovate and led us to taking SaludArte virtual. This year, we are able to be in-person but are also taking along our learnings from 2020 to make #SaludArte2021 hybrid! Stay tuned to learn how.

 
 

Vendor Directory

Who’s Vending when

Click the flyer to enlarge and then scroll down to learn more about each vendor

 
 

Who’s Who…

in alphabetical order by vendor name

"By Omayda" by Omayda Massa Torres

✨Handmade clay art

📅 By Omayda is one of the Colectiva Resident Vendors and will be present on both Saturday and Sunday!

🗯 "My name is Omayda I’m a queer Latinx born and raised in Puerto Rico currently living in Mass. I create handmade polymer clay art from jewelry, art, home decor, and more. I started late 2019 and I haven’t stopped creating since. I draw a lot of inspiration from my culture, fashion, music, nature, and even past experiences."

🛍️ byomayda.com
IG: @byomayda
FB: By Omayda


"Hecho Por Cela" by Celeste Cruz

✨ journals, prints, original work

📅 Hecho Por Cela will be present on Sunday!

🗯 "Dominican multimedia artist based out of Lawrence, MA"

IG: @hechoporcela


“Colectiva Wellness & Healing” by Elizabeth Delgado

✨ Spiritual Salt Baths; Anxiety & Depressions Support Satchels; Sleep Support Satchels; Sliding Scale Energy Clearings

📅 Colectiva Wellness & Healing, of course, will be available on both Saturday and Sunday!

🗯 "Colectiva Wellness & Healing collaborates with organizations, communities & individuals in learning together and providing resilience tools, healing practices, services and programs that elevate collective wellbeing. As a disabled, queer, Afro-Taino, Latinx owned business, Colectiva is committed to providing affordable and accessible healing offerings to Black, Indigenous, Latinx and People of Color, Queer, Transgender, Non-Binary and Gender Non-Conforming siblings. Social, racial, disability, environmental and healing justice are interwoven into the foundational values of Colectiva’s mission."

🛍️ colectivawellbeing.com
IG: @colectiva_wellbeing


"Craftytrays" by Nirushka Hidalgo

✨ We will be selling keychains, car coasters, wall hangs, trays, ashtrays, regular coasters, tumblers, notebooks, and bookmarks

📅 Craftytrays will be present on Saturday!

🗯 "As an artist from Lawrence, MA, creating was always my thing. I loved to draw or make my own diy things."

🛍️ etsy.com/shop/CraftyTraysByNiruuuu
IG: @craftytrays
TW: @craftytrays


"DeyCloud Art" by Deyaniera Claudio

✨ Handmade jewelry made out of resin, clay and wire metal

📅 DeyCloud Art is one of the Colectiva Resident Vendors and will be present on both Saturday and Sunday!

🗯 "Hello there, my name is Dey, Deya or Deyaniera, I go by many names and some of you know me from my IG handle DeyCloud Arts. I am a Lawrence-based artist. I dabble in many different art mediums but, lately I have been creating handmade earrings out of resin, clay and wire metals. I was down and out about creating, which is strange because if you know me, you know that I love art. It was due to the pandemic that this wonderful new form that I'm fond of blossomed into something more. My newest edition has included making wire hoop earrings and matching rings."

IG: @deycloudart
FB: @deycloudart


El Taller

✨ Independent Bookstore

📅 El Taller will be present on both Saturday and Sunday!

🗯 "Born in 2012, El Taller is guided by its name - 'the workshop.' It is a cafe and bookstore but acts like a studio or workshop for the community at-large. It is a place to hang out, read books, write, join discussions, meet with friends and enjoy good food."

🛍️ eltallerarts.com
IG & TW: @eltaller_arts
FB: @taller.bookstore


Fernanda Lopez

✨ La Sol: small wood cut pieces, hand painted with acrylics, portraying a femme sun

📅 Fernanda will be present on Saturday!

🗯 A Lawrence-based creative and arts healer, making art at SaludArte to help to bring Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut home (sacredsea.org/skalichelhtenaut)

IG: @miuliza


Gladys Wangeci Gitau-Damaskos

✨ Author, "I'm Not Allowed to Explain"

📅 Gladys will be present on Sunday!

🛍️ gladyswangeci.com
IG: @xwangeci


"Hai Bà Nguyễn" by Y-Binh

✨ Handmade clay art

📅 Hai Bà Nguyễn is one of the Colectiva Resident Vendors and will be present on both Saturday and Sunday!

🗯 "Hai Bà Nguyễn is a handmade artisanal crafts brand with a digital chợ started by two sisters Bảo Trân & Y-Bình. Y-Bình will be presenting an array of ceramic goods for Saludarte this year!"

IG: @hai_ba_nguyen
FB: @haibanguyenonfb


“JustJulie” by Julie Todd

📅 JustJulie is one of the Colectiva Resident Vendors and will be present on both Saturday and Sunday!

🗯 "I am an herbalist, aromatherapist, astrologer & professor of justice & peace studies. I have spent several years studying plant medicine, which has played a primary role in decolonizing my mind and my religious understanding and practice."

🛍️ justjulie.me
IG: @just_julie_todd
FB: @JustJulie.me


"Kiki Arts" by Nicole Garcia (Nikky)

✨ Stickers, Tote Bags, Trinket Trays, and Beaded Accessories

📅 Kiki Arts will be present on Sunday!

🗯 "Hello! My name is Nicole Garcia, I also go by Nikky/Kiki. I am a Latina multimedia artist from Lawrence, MA. I have my BA in Architectural Design from MassArt and have always had a passion for colorful, bright and feminine energy in the arts. My work focuses on subjects of femme bodies, floral work and fruit, to convey femininity and divinity through multiple mediums. Currently, I'm working on trays that look like fruits and beaded bracelets and waist beads with healing crystals."

IG: @kikididdat


"LEVH Arts" by Lerisy

✨ Clay sculptures/prints/embroidered hats and patches/enamel pins/stickers

📅 LEVH Arts will be present on Sunday!

🗯 "My name is Lerisy Estephani Villa Hernandez, born in the Dominican Republic, raised in the US after the age of 12. My business name is an acronym for my full name, which phonetically sounds like "love". Therefore LEVH arts. I enjoy experimenting and exploring, so I don't have a specific medium that I stick with. At the moment, I'm having lots of fun creating polymer clay sculptures, making embroidered items, and painting (traditional/digital hybrid). I would describe my art as strange-cute. Strange, because that's a word I've definitely heard said about my art, but I fully embrace it and sometimes aim for, and cute, because sometimes it just is :)"

🛍️ etsy.com/shop/levharts
IG: @levh_arts
TikTok: @levh_arts


"Lujo Skin" by Leah Sparks

✨ Natural handmade skin and wellness products

📅 Lujo Skin will be present on Sunday!

🗯 "I am a young Latina entrepreneur hailing from Lawrence, MA. I have a passion for creating healing products and being immersed in/giving back to my community."

🛍️ lujoskin.com
IG: @lujoskin
FB: @lujoskin


"Mama Crochets" by Lissette Hernandez

✨ Handmade Crochet Art and Handmade Pasteles En Hoja (sold frozen)

📅 Mama Crochets will be present on Saturday!

🗯 "I am a self-taught crochet artist from Lawrence. I developed a passion for my craft in my later years but I’m so glad that I gave myself a chance to open up my creative doors. I also specialize in making handmade traditional Caribbean foods, like pasteles, alcapurrias, pastelitos and more."

IG: @mamacrochet62_


Milly

✨ Ceramic pieces (i.e. vases, holders, home decor)

📅 Milly will be present on Sunday!

🗯 "I am a creator who uses different art mediums to express myself and experience the world in my own way. As a person with a background in STEM, my lifelong passion for the arts has been a way to combine both parts of my view of the world while showing that there's beauty in everything, even numbers and calculations. Constantly learning new forms of expression, which include designing, becoming a co-founder and design editor of Exposed Brick Literary Magazine, freelance video and photography, and more, I continue to create a world to invite others into an experience."

IG: @afrosensual


Mr. Luis

✨ Spiritual Consultant. Teacher. Energy Worker. Ceremony & Ritual.

📅 Mr. Luis is one of the Colectiva Resident Vendors and will be present on both Saturday and Sunday!

🛍️ mrluis812.wixsite.com/mysite
IG: @mr.luis.spirit


"Neighborhood Artist" by Sandy Tep

✨ Multimedia artist / fine artist interested in making arts with different mediums

📅 Neighborhood Artist will be present on Saturday with stickers, prints and paintings!

IG: @neighborhoodartist


"Rooted Body Co." by Kelly

✨ Holistic Soap, Bodycare and Seamoss Gel

📅 Rooted Body Co. will be present on Sunday!

🗯 "Hello! I’m Kelly, a Blessed mother of 2 awesome boys and a nature lover. I run and operate my home-based business and website. I get help from my family to keep on top of business-related tasks. I’m super grateful to recently get my older son involved in our soap production! I absolutely love all that has to do with nature and especially love to create special artisanal goods that support the whole being,.. body, mind, and soul. ✨🌱🤎 Looking forward to SaludArte!"

🛍️ rootedbodyco.com
IG: @rootedbodyco
FB: @rootedbodyco


"Sonder Bliss Lounge" by Emily Gomez

✨ Crystals and Spiritual Resources

📅 Sonder Bliss Lounge will be present on Saturday!

🗯 "Hey there. My name is Emily. I am 21 years old, with the love and passion for art and natural healing. I went to college as a theatre major with a love for natural healing and being myself through my creative art. I’ve created a French-inspired natural healing lounge, which is a product of my love for art, film, culture, natural healing and spirituality. This company has a mission to spread my love and light. I am so blessed to also offer card readings as I feel extremely connected with the universe. Through my work, I strive to continue educating on natural healing and the beauty of art in this world. The power of the mind, body and soul is bliss. Sonder is the concept that although we’re all living our own complex lives and experience pain; we’re not alone. We’re more connected than we think. For us to be able to connect in this way makes the world bliss. Bliss even through the pain and the struggle."

🛍️ sonderblisslounge.com
IG: @sonderblisslounge


“T.Melon” by Thalia Melendez

✨ Handmade art

📅 T.Melon is one of the Colectiva Resident Vendors and will be present on both Saturday and Sunday!

🗯 "My name is Thalia Melendez and I am an artist and paint night instructor who is passionate about bringing art back into my community."

🛍️ tmelonart.com
IG: @t.melon


"The Cultural Worker" by Amaryllis Lopez

✨ Amaryllis is an afrofeminist Puerto Rican cultural worker from Lawrence, MA

📅 The Cultural Worker will be present on Sunday but they're taking digital commissions starting from today at 6pm onward!

🗯 "As a cultural worker, preserving moments of joy is an integral part of our liberatory practices. Looking for a special gift for a loved one or a fun way to refresh your social media? I'm your girl! Through these commissions, I create digital illustrations that bring a creative twist to already cherished photographs."

🛍️ bit.ly/culturalworker
IG: @theculturalworker
TW: @amaryllislpz


"Twin Rose Craft" by Allison & Kaitlyn Jolly

✨ Ceramic and Fiber Arts

📅 Twin Rose Craft will be present on Saturday!

🗯 "We are twin artists/makers working in ceramics and fiber. We have a cool line of mid-sized soda fired goddess vases with extra adornments (wings, serpents, moons)."

IG: @twinrosecraft