{"id":12127,"date":"2021-11-09T18:20:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T18:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/?p=12127"},"modified":"2021-11-09T20:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:06:07","slug":"made-by-melanin-gifts-for-a-woke-bespoke-black-holiday-season-by-c-denise-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/made-by-melanin-gifts-for-a-woke-bespoke-black-holiday-season-by-c-denise-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Made by Melanin: Gifts for a woke bespoke, Black holiday season | By C. Denise Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12128\" src=\"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/made-by-melanin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/made-by-melanin.png 1640w, http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/made-by-melanin-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/made-by-melanin-1024x577.png 1024w, http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/made-by-melanin-768x433.png 768w, http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/made-by-melanin-1536x865.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although many were dreaming of a post-pandemic holiday season, that will be another year, not this year. More of us who appreciate and see the value of doing more business with one another.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh has a deep bench when it comes to Black creators and entrepreneurs. They are crafted out of a niche out of what create. Our traditional go-to spots are still around, <a href=\"https:\/\/jamilsglobal.myshopify.com\/\">Jamil&#8217;s Global Village (jamilsglobal.myshopify.com)<\/a>, Ujaama (<a href=\"http:\/\/ujamaacollective.org\/\">ujamaacollective.org<\/a>), Dorsey\u2019s Record Shop (412-<a href=\"tel:4127316607\">731-6607<\/a>), and the Catapult Greater Pittsburgh Galleries (formerly known as Gallery on Penn 412-683-6488) have company in the form of cooperative retail, offering bricks and mortar display space IRT for locally-made artisan crafts.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12127 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Argyle.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Argyle-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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\/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Argyle\u00a0Studio<\/strong>\u00a0is a retail incubator for small businesses still in recovery from the pandemic on the Forbes Avenue corridor in Oakland leading into Pitt. A Black WBE,\u00a0ULEADx was selected from a broad range of applicants and charged with filling the space with a mix of makers, artists, and creatives. Familiar names and emerging artisans. local\u00a0talent, quality merchandise, and most important: to create an interior environment with a \u201ccool factor.\u201d\u00a0Argyle Studio, 3508 Forbes Avenue 15213 (Oakland) 412-224-2692\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/popupargyle.com\/\">popupargyle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deavron Dailey\u00a0<\/strong>is a visual artist whose work can be seen in murals around town (including East Liberty). On a smaller scale, Dailey works with acrylics and tile along with other mixed media. A cohort member of Nafasi on Centre in the Hill District, an artist space, gallery and meeting spot that incubates emerging visual. He accepts commissions. Dailey Mixed Media, 412-816-6138, @deavron.dailey.art<\/p>\n<p><strong>MOKA Gallery \u2013 House of Culture<\/strong> is the late-in-life child of Errol Mobutu Reynolds and Charlotte Ka, both artists with roots in Pittsburgh. They want to give the Hill a gallery and space for the neighborhood to gather and share stories of the past, artwork informed by the creative spirit that nurtured the likes of Rob Penney, Art Blakey, Billy Strayhorn, and August Wilson, and kindle the talents of the Hill\u2019s emerging talent. This is where you go for real handcrafts items made in Africa, Djembe drums, wood instruments that can function as d\u00e9cor or a child\u2019s toy, masks (not that fake stuff from Burlington), and much more. MOKA Gallery \u2013 House of Soul, 2297 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 2297 Centre Avenue 412-314-4457\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mokaonsoho.com\/\">https:\/\/mokaonsoho.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although many were dreaming of a post-pandemic holiday season, that will be another year, not this year. More of us who appreciate and see the value of doing more business with one another. Pittsburgh has a deep bench when it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/made-by-melanin-gifts-for-a-woke-bespoke-black-holiday-season-by-c-denise-johnson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"featured_image_src":"","blog_images":{"medium":"","large":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12154,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions\/12154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}