The Art of Craft

AN EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL WORKS AND FINE ART PRINTS AT THE ALLEGORY ART COLLECTIVE

FEATURING THE MADAGASCAR COLLECTION

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Where Craft Becomes Art.

And arTIsans become artists.

The Landscape of Namibia

A collection of original SAN paintings

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Building Passive Income For All Artists

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CRAFT TO ART. ARTISANS TO ARTISTS.

Proud Mary is a fine art and limited-edition print studio, co-created with artisans across three continents. The work sits at the intersection of contemporary fine art and traditional craft — colorful, globally-influenced, and deeply considered.

Our Story

Original artwork from global artisans— transformed into scalable collections for hospitality, corporate, dining, and residential spaces.

Art That Travels Further

CURATED COLLECTIONS FOR INTERIORS

'Hombre' and 'Colibri' Fine Art Prints with woman in home.

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Our Mission

To provide all artisans - regardless of their location, language, craft medium, or digital connectivity - with the opportunity for their craft to be recognized as art.

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FEATURED ARTISTS

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Tanana Madagascar

Wild Silk from Madagascar

Tanana Madagascar artists transform one of the world’s rarest wild silks into extraordinary textile art.

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Anita van Wyk

Paintings from Namibia

A San artist and single mother whose work has been exhibited in Namibia and Australia and adapted for textile production worldwide. Her paintings translate cultural memory and lived experience into form with an intuitive, quiet authority.

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Maria Fritz

Paintings from Namibia

A self-taught San painter from the Kalahari whose oil paintings captured the flora and traditional narratives of her community. Maria passed away at 36 — her work and her story endure.

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Lisa Boepens

Paintings from Namibia

A San artist from Namibia whose deep knowledge of traditional plants flows directly into her paintings — the same flora she forages from the land around her, rendered on canvas with a confident and distinctive hand.

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Las Dalias

Embroidery from Mexico

A collective of women embroiderers from Huixtán, Chiapas, founded by Isabel, Elena, Micaela, Sebastiana, and Luci. Their specialty is floral embroidery, crafted with great attention to detail. Over time, they’ve refined their techniques and developed a unique style that has allowed them to collaborate with designers and brands across Mexico and abroad.

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William Marapamele

Basotho Blankets from Lesotho

A shepherd and artist from the highlands of Lesotho who started drawing on maize meal bags as a child. Today his large-scale embroidered Basotho blankets stitch together traditional motifs with his own unmistakable whimsical, creative vision.

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Porgai Artisans

Lambadi Embroidery from Tamil Nadu, India

The artists of Porgai revive the nearly lost tradition of Lambadi embroidery. With a vast stitch vocabulary of over 40 different stitches, their embroidery is done without prior sketching and follows the artist’s instinct around color and composition.

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Suytik

Backstrap Weaving from Chiapas, Mexico

Suytik is a multigenerational collective of Tsotsil women weavers from San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas. Members of the López Díaz family have practiced backstrap weaving since childhood — a tradition in which the loom serves not only as a tool but as a vessel for Tsotsil identity, knowledge, and continuity.

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FOR ART CONSULTANTS

We work with art consultants as a specialized source: globally-commissioned originals, limited edition prints, and licensed applications with established provenance and a royalty model you can put in front of your clients.

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