Pop-Up! Portal Art Market
Uplift Your Community! Shop for Good.
The livelihood of local artists, musicians, makers, and teachers is in jeopardy due to widespread event cancellations and lost gigs. In response, the Ed Portal is hosting an online market to help connect our amazing network of creatives—many from the Allston and Brighton neighborhoods—to you. Check out the featured artists below and shop for something special for you or your loved ones. Your purchases will support our treasured local artists so they can continue to inspire, challenge, and entertain us all, and 100% of the proceeds go directly to the artists through their individual sales platforms.
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Aberdeen Wood Shop
Allston-Brighton-based artist
$25–$100
Michael McInnis crafts beautiful works for the kitchen, the study, and the home that are the foundations for poetic living. His work and his life are inspired by clean, simple design, with his array of products ranging from simple, elegant pens to tables for your home and office.
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Andrew Rogovin Ceramics
Allston-Brighton-based artist
$15–$120
Andrew Rogovin specializes in pottery textured from natural sources, such as honeycomb, that feel as good to hold as they are to look at. As a ceramic sculptor based in Boston primarily specializing in faces, his works include mugs, pots, vases, and more. // @andrewrogovin
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Kate Martens
Allston-Brighton-based artist
$5–$88
Kate Martens’ work is inspired by patterns, both in the natural and constructed worlds. Her work features colorful and fun plant portraits, as well as greeting cards and prints. // @katedotmartens
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Kat Maus Haus Illustration & Design
Allston-Brighton-based artist
$3–$45
As an illustrator with a flair for nostalgia and a love for the outdoors, Kathryn Maus creates illustrations that celebrate natural spaces. Her illustrations connect fellow outdoor enthusiasts with the places they love, from far away mountains to the parks in their own neighborhoods, and allow them to bring home a little slice of these special places. // @katmaushaus
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Maria Finkelmeier
Allston-Brighton-based artist
$10–$40
For artist Maria Finkelmeier, being a percussionist means having the ability, desire, and instinct to make music with any object, from traditional instruments to found sounds. With this mission, she composes, improvises, and performs music both in and out of the concert hall, and finds connections between space and sound. // @mariafinkperc
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Urban Kitchen Handmade
Allston-Brighton-based artist
$5–$20
Artist Helene Matteson’s mission at Urban Kitchen Handmade is to make unique high quality natural skin care and home decor products using plant based oils, butters, waxes, and scents. Their products include handmade natural soap, soy candles, natural perfumes, and more—all handmade from their studio in Allston. // @urbansoaper
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Anda Tanaka Art
$150–$600
Anda Tanaka is a Boston-based artist with deep roots in the Midwest. She makes work that draws from everyday experiences, including work about landscape, ephemerality, and human attempts to control time and space. In the home or office, her pieces create windows into calm yet playful environments. // @atanaka_art
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Brandy Bingham
$3–$12
Brandy Bingham is inspired by her cats, her friends, her childhood, & New England to create the little things she would want to buy if she wasn't creating them herself. She focuses on little things, including stickers, pins, and patches, to keep her work accessible to everyone. // @brandybingham
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Elissa Surabian Art
$3–$20
Elissa Surabian is a hand-lettering artist and illustrator specializing in chalkboard art and murals based in Boston. She is inspired by positive thinking, community, and making the world a more loving place. Her website features colorful and inspiring prints and postcards for purchase. // @chalkin_about_boston
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Glass Paper Scissors
$20–$125
Owner Kolika Chatterjee is an artist and designer based in Somerville MA who makes wearable and functional glass art. Glass Paper Scissors evolved from a line of mixed media and repurposed glass arts to primarily focus on kiln-formed and stained glassware for home & garden and office use, plus jewelry. // @glasspaperbykolika
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JAYPIX
$25–$600
Jay Belmer, or Jaypix Studios, produces photography that is a one-of-a-kind service helping others see their true potential in themselves—inspired by people, design, & creative image making. Her work reflects music and iconic art, as well as techniques that display visual soul. // @jaypixmof
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MMG Art Studio
$110–$2,000
Monica Marquez Gartica is a fine art oil painter, born in Jerez, Spain and living in Aurora, Colorado. Using a mixture of oil pigments, she developed a signature style of realistic paintings. Monica explores many underlying themes in her paintings and believes the most important parts are the visual properties, the details of life itself, which also provides endless inspiration. // @MonicaMMGARTSTUDIO
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Nippy Gibbler
$12–$40
Artist Renée Silva’s shop Nippy Gibbler features a hand-painted apparel line promoting abstraction into the everyday world. These wearable art pieces are valued for their fun colors and thick textures. Every Nippy Gibbler is hand made with oil paint, a one-of-a-kind design painted by a local artist, and machine washable. // @nippygibbler
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Wyllo
$18–$50
Wyllo is inspired by minimalism, dainty designs, and the beauty of semi precious gemstones. Moonstone, labradorite, and amethyst are commonly used in artist Alyssa Davis’ designs, as well as natural pearls. She likes to create simple designs that can be worn alone, or built upon to create a more dramatic look. // @shopwyllo
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Zone 3 Artist Pop-Up Shop
Want to support more local artists? Browse our sister shop at ZONE 3. They've put together a mini shop to highlight some of their favorite artists’ online pieces. // @zone3westernave
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Harvard Ceramics Program Artists
Ruth Easterbrook Ceramics
Allston-Brighton-based artist
$60–$375
Ruth Easterbrook, Artist-in-Residence at the Harvard Ceramics Program, creates work inspired by the active role pottery leads in daily life. Her work is meant to be seen as 'interactive art' and is designed to be touched, filled, shared, and enjoyed. She creates intricate and detailed pieces often featuring floral designs, including plates, jars, tumblers, and more. // @ruth.easterbrook
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Deighton Abrams
$165–$185
Deighton is a ceramic sculptor and educator. He has a desire to make our complicated relationship to landscape and our planet less traumatic through contemplative, aesthetic objects and accessible ceramic functional ware. // @deightonceramics
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Alice Bouvrie
$15–$30
Alice Bouvrie loves using nature as inspiration both as a template for design as well as simply enjoying the feel of the clay.
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Anne Eder / Chansonette
$50–$1,500
Anne Eder’s work takes place where the natural world meets the narrative impulse, and includes sculpture, installation, image making, and fiction writing. She often uses sculpture and installation to generate the components of photographs that are hand-printed using historic and alternative processes. Her sculptures range from large organic pieces to smaller artifacts, often made from porcelain. // @darcflower
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JMark Pottery
$30–$150
Joanna Mark has worked with the Harvard Ceramics studio for the past 34 years. She specializes in functional and sculptural ware, which is inspired by many things in her life: nature, textures, art, and the subconscious. Her work has been shown at various galleries up and down the East Coast. // @jmarkpottery
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Studio M
$15–$200
Artist Mia Suni finds inspiration from many different things around her: a beautiful font, the shape of a bridge, or a pattern on a leaf. She's also inspired by the challenge of using clay in unexpected ways; lightness and simplicity often characterizes her work. // @studio_m_galleria
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Karina Yanes Ceramics
$25–$100
Karina Yanes is a Cambridge-based artist whose work in ceramics is inspired by her personal struggle with mental health. She primarily hand builds both abstract sculptures and functional work, including kitchenware such as bowls and mugs. // @karinayanesceramics
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Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
Interested in learning more about ceramics opportunities for the community? Check out the Ed Portal’s neighbors, their classes, events, and their state-of-the-art studio. // @harvardceramics
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Want to Collaborate?
We’re always looking to meet new Boston artists and talk about ideas to work together, especially with Allston-Brighton residents. Introduce yourself so we can discuss existing programs and future art initiatives!