Where Craft Becomes Art.

And arTIsans become artists.

Meet the Artists of Omba Arts Trust

The visual storytellers of the San communities

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a new collection of original paintings.

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 Building Passive Income For All Artists

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fine art prints with impact and meaning.

We collaborate with artisans to co-create collections of original art and fine art prints.  Artisans earn royalties on every print their work inspires.

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Story-driven prints to set your assortment apart

Attract discerning buyers with prints that inspire.

Each limited edition fine art print carries the artist’s name - ensuring they receive both credit and passive income in the form of royalties.

Strong margins and meaningful artist partnerships - creating lasting value for your business and the people behind the work.

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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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Elevating craft into collectible fine art at scale

Procure art with meaning for your inspired spaces. All while building story-driven fine art print collections that integrate into your brand experience.

Now offering contract partners - from hospitality to corporate clients - with a complete artwork pipeline from original to print. We build artisan led collections rooted in craft traditions, artist relationships and impact. 

Each original tells a crafted story. And each print provides artisans with passive income in the form of royalties.

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FEATURED ARTISTS

Meet the Artists
Anita van Wyk
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.

Maria Fritz
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.

Lisa Boepens
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.

Las Dalias
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.

William Marapamele
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.

Porgai Artisans
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.

Suytik
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.

Colibri
Colibri

Backstrap Weaving from Chiapas, Mexico

Three Tseltal sisters from San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas — Ana, Petrona, and Natalia — who learned backstrap weaving from their elders and are now making it entirely their own, bringing new colors, formats, and ideas to a tradition they grew up with.

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JOURNAL

Journal
The Art of Lambadi Embroidery
The Art of Lambadi Embroidery

Porgai works directly with Lambadi women artisans, creating a structure where the embroidery can continue to exist as a livelihood. Not as something preserved behind glass, but as something still practiced, still evolving, still in the hands of the people it belongs to.

AI Isn't Coming For Artisans
AI Isn't Coming For Artisans

If AI can generate beautiful patterns, compelling stories, even entire brand identities, what happens to the artisans? To the slow work? To the human knowledge embedded in materials and making?

A Wearable Canvas | The History of Basotho Blankets
A Wearable Canvas | The History of Basotho Blankets

Originating in the 19th century, Basotho blankets were inspired by a gift of a woolen shawl from a British official to King Moshoeshoe I, the first King of Lesotho and the founder of the tiny landlocked nation. And in that pivotal cross cultural exchange, what began as an adaptation of European textile became a hallmark of Basotho identity. 

Craft, Agriculture & Memory
Craft, Agriculture & Memory

Last week I began the Living the Rice Cycle course with Astungkara Way - a three and a half month agricultural journey for visitors to Bali to experience seed to harvest alongside Balinese farmers. Our first class was a beautiful immersion into the cultural wisdom, challenges, and future dreams of local rice farmers. And we got to get our hands and feet dirty in the mud, which is always fun.

Creating More With Less
Creating More With Less

Can we create a world in which less stuff creates more impact?

For centuries, creative entrepreneurs have been told that they can earn according to a 1:1 ratio. In other words, in order to earn, let’s say, $2, they would have to create one unit. If they want to earn $4, they would have to create two units. So on and so forth.

In a World of Commodification, Choose Elevation.
In a World of Commodification, Choose Elevation.

At Proud Mary, we believe that true wealth is built when your income no longer depends solely on your time. 

Finding Inspiration In a World of Less
Finding Inspiration In a World of Less

While a Proud Mary fine art print, created on demand through our partner, family-owned print shop in the US, is certainly an ideal gift to do more with less, it’s also not the only way to embody that maxim.

Below, we share just a few of the other businesses and business models that are inspiring us to buy better, do better and live better.

Creating Passive Income for Artists Everywhere
Creating Passive Income for Artists Everywhere

At Proud Mary, we believe that true wealth is built when your income no longer depends solely on your time. It’s created when artisans are given the opportunity to earn passive income from authenticated reproductions of their work.

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