Creative Content Artisans Style Group
Holiday Pop-Up Event
@ Blank Space SE: 1922 MLK Jr. Ave. S.E. Washington, DC
Millee Spears of Khismet Wearable Art, Charita Powell of Amazulu & Chaya Designs,
Stef N' Ty and Nicole Summers will all be there!
Open Hours:
December 9th, 3-8pm
December 10-11th, 11am-7pm
December 14-18th, 11am-7pm
December 10-11th, 11am-7pm
December 14-18th, 11am-7pm
Millee Spears of Khismet
Wearable Art
Millee has been a resident of Historic Anacostia for the last 14 years and has been designing
wearable art for most of her life. She is inspired by indigenous, hand-worked textiles from many cultures. She also
hand-paint, bead, and appliqué to create unique, one of a kind pieces. The December
Collection will consist of comfortable, interesting, pieces designed to provoke
thought and promote conversation.
Charita Powell of Amazulu and Chaya Designs
Charita Powell
has been in business for 27 years and has been designing jewelry and home
lighting décor for 20 years. Charita was
initially inspired to do business and create jewelry by the brothers on the
street in the 70’s and 80’s vending their hand-made jewelry. She was later inspired by the Green Movement
and her exposure to other cultures through her travels. For 1 ½- 2 months every year Charita travels
to the forests of Indonesia to forage for raw materials to be used in her
lighting fixtures designs; many consisting of coconut shell, teak and bamboo. The pieces are hand-made by a family business based in Indonesia
Stef N’ Ty
Designer Stefanie
Dickey of Stef N’ Ty fashions has been extremely busy these days preparing her
winter collection which features hats made from a variety of textiles including
up-cycled denim, decorator fabrics and hand-dyed woolens. She will also be featuring One-of-a-Kind
Coats and shrugs. Stef is inspired most by textiles. The colors and textures
speak to her and tell her what the garment should be. Fall is her favorite
season and she is in a creative frenzy. She sews for the average woman doing one size fits all (10-22) and will
do smaller sizes as a special order.
Art by Nicole
Nicole Summers is a
passionate young artist who is a wife and the mother of two young children. She
is a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts. She is
inspired most by emotional music and emotional states in general. Her collection consists mostly of
musicians!! Her current favorite pieces
of work are an image of musician Lauren Hill and the very controversial piece
of Marvin Gaye which will be on exhibit at the December Blank Space show. In
the mean time Nicole is a commercial artist, designing logos, and cards etc.
Zuresh
Zuresh (the
company) was started by husband and wife Steve and Mia a little over 10 years
ago. Their skin, body and bath products
are all hand-made in their Maryland, home-based business. The products are very
popular and not animal–tested. Their
newest products are the Golden Lion Balm which is a turmeric-based salve for
those with scalp ailments. For those who
love a bar soap, a new Olive oil based soap with coconut, and an Aloe
moisturizer to match
