Calabar Imports Harlem

01/12/2023

Check out our new exhibition in Midtown and come and see the exhibition in the gallery and join us on Monday for

ART TALK DIALOGUES!

HARD AND SOFT CONTRASTS: TEXTILES, FIBER AND SCULPTURE
AT THE YARD, COLUMBUS CIRCLE
Curated by Atim Annette Oton, Calabar Gallery,
January 26 to April 17, 2023
Register at Eventbrite: buff.ly/3GGhZa9

This exhibition is about materiality, breaking traditions and narratives and will include sculpture, textile and fiber works from 14 local, regional and international artists. Work shown explores how the choice and use of materials extend the artist's imagination, use of color and subject matter. From steel to wood to fiber, each artist experiments with their work from idea, concept, theme and context to create a unique piece of art.

Artists include Janet Goldner, Eto Otitigbe, P. Wamaitha Ng’ang’a, Gianluca Bianchino, Oluwaseyi Awoyomi (Shayee), Alexandre Kyungu, Irene Christensen Nnenna Okore, Akilu Temesgen, Lisa Lackey, Kwesi O. Kwarteng, Sika Foyer, Faustin Adenarin, Ghislaine Sabati and Winfred Nana Amoah

This exhibition is at
THE YARD COLUMBUS CIRCLE
33 W. 60th Street, Floors 2, 11, 12, NY, NY 10023

Details about the exhibition:
[email protected]

Calabar Gallery represents and exhibits underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists, with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects. Visit us online at calabargallery.com

Click here for an update from Calabar Imports in Harlem located at 2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd (corner 134th Street), T: 646-964-5062. Email: [email protected]. We are Open Wednesday to Sunday, 12 - 7pm.!

02/13/2022

Shop for our Valentine.

We have several sales just today and tomorrow.

Come on in today and tomorrow from 12 noon to 6pm and pick up on sale:

Jewelry
Candles
Journals

And
Many more items.

01/08/2022

Join us for our first exhibition this year at Calabar Gallery.

Vaccination and Mask required as per NYC Mandate.

SYNERGIES
Community: Equity: Elan Cadiz
Cartography: Scarification: Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe

January 8 to February 3, 2022

Opens January 8, 2pm to 6pm

Register to attend eventbrite.com/e/synergies-equity-elan-cadiz-scarification-alexandre-kyungu-mwilambwe-tickets-231920449307 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/synergies-equity-elan-cadiz-scarification-alexandre-kyungu-mwilambwe-tickets-231920449307)

SYNERGIES is a conversation between the work of two artists: North American and New York based Elan Cadiz and Congolese And Kinshasa based Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe about mapping their journey's through art ideas and life. Each is a series of pivotal stories capturing community through geography, places, people and moments. Both are using ethnographic processes, material and mediums as well as techniques to talk about equity, migration and the cities they inhabit and work in.

Calabar Gallery
2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd
New York, NY 10030

646-964-5062

Hours: Wednesday to Sunday,
12 to 7pm

Elan Cadiz is an interdisciplinary North American Visual Artist that deconstructs and balances her intersectionality through her projects. Her art and practice are grounded in the documentation of her personal narrative through the use of historical imagery and the domestic. Elan Cadiz graduated from City College of New York with a BA in Studio Art and a MFA Fine Art from SVA

Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe (born in 1992, Kinshasa D.R.Congo) lives and works in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa. He is co-founder of the group Vision Total (vi.to) and works in collaboration with Kin Art Studio (KAS). Alexandre Kyungu is an artist whose work explores the imaginary between mapping and scarification of the body. He combines painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation in his practice as an artist. However, his work explores all ideas of migration and identity, borders and space, signs, and symbols.

Interested in acquiring work, [email protected]

12/18/2021

Come in and find the perfect gifts presents today and tomorrow.

We have all the gifts you’re looking for this Christmas. And our new gift cards might just be the best gift of all.

Click here for an update from Calabar Imports in Harlem located at 2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd (corner 134th Street), T: 646-964-5062. Email: [email protected]. We are Open Wednesday to Sunday, 12 - 7:30pm.!

11/20/2021

So excited to announce that Calabar Imports has been selected to be one of the GOOGLE’S companies and we are participating in this huge campaign this year.

Kick off shopping season with big Black Friday and Small Business Saturday savings. We’re blowing it out this year!

Join CALABAR IMPORTS in celebrating !

Search, shop and support Black-owned for your holiday shopping & all year long.

Learn more & look for us in the shoppable film from T-Pain & Normani at g.co/blackownedfriday.

, visit us at
708 Franklin Avenue, . [email protected] and visit us at ow.ly/s0AF30ik85V

THIS SUNDAY,

JOIN US FOR HARLEM MAKERS COLLECTIVE
POPUP

11.21.2021
1-7pm

2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd

Register here:
eventbrite.com/e/harlem-makers-collective-at-calabar-gallery-november21-2021-tickets-199714510477 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harlem-makers-collective-at-calabar-gallery-november21-2021-tickets-199714510477)

Online, find Calabar Imports products at Calabar-Imports.com. see above and below, what's online.

Join us:

Harlem Makers Collective

11.21.2021
1-7pm
2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd

Register here:
eventbrite.com/e/harlem-makers-collective-at-calabar-gallery-november21-2021-tickets-199714510477 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harlem-makers-collective-at-calabar-gallery-november21-2021-tickets-199714510477)

HARLEM ARTS STROLL

December 11, 2021
1pm to 6pm
ART, FOOD, AND CULTURE.

It's about Harlem from 110th to 155th Streets with its galleries and businesses welcoming you.

It's FREE: Eventbrite eventbrite.com/e/harlem-arts-stroll-december-11-edition-tickets-206665049727 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harlem-arts-stroll-december-11-edition-tickets-206665049727)

Join us for our

1ST ANNUAL
CALABAR GALLERY
END OF YEAR ART SALE

DECEMBER 11 TO 24TH, 2021

ONLINE AND ONSITE

CALABAR GALLERY
2504 FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOULEVARD
NEW YORK, NY
646-964-5062
CALABARGALLERY.COM (http://WWW.CALABARGALLERY.COM)

REGISTER AT eventbrite.com/e/1st-annual-calabar-gallery-end-of-year-art-sale-tickets-206672802917 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1st-annual-calabar-gallery-end-of-year-art-sale-tickets-206672802917)

10/16/2021

Reposted from Calabar Gallery] Register to attend

Harlem Makers Collective
Calabar Gallery]

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harlem-makers-collective-at-calabar-gallery-october-24-2021-tickets-188918419077

Sunday 10.24
1-7pm

2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd

www.harlemmakerscollective.com

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to experience our beautiful line up for next week's fall pop up coming up.

10/06/2021

Reposted from HARLEM ARTS STROLL
IS ART, FOOD, AND CULTURE.

Sat, October 9, 2021: 1pm to 6pm

It's about Harlem from 110th to 155th Streets with its galleries and businesses welcoming you.

It's FREE: Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harlem-arts-stroll-october-edition-tickets-170633929677

Spend time with:

CALABAR GALLERY


CLAIRE OLIVER GALLERY


CURTISS JACOBS GALLERY


DIASPORA NOW


HEATH GALLERY


KENTE ROYAL GALLERY

L' ESPACE DE REVE


LONG GALLERY


UNDERGROUND GALLERY

WHITEBOX


ARTISTS STUDIOS:

CARLKARNI-BAIN


ART AT HARLEM PARKS:

PHOTOVILLE AT ST NICHOLAS AVENUE PARK


FACES OF HARLEM


ART Via a PHOTO WALK:

UPTOWN PHOTO WALK


ART BY YOUTH:

ARTISTIC NOISE


CHILDREN'S ART CARNIVAL


ART & FOOD will be at:

NBHD BRULEE COFFEE SHOP


INK


SPONSORED BY:

HARLEM BREWING COMPANY


HARLEM ONE STOP


HARLEM CAREERS


HARLEM 4 ALL


TBO HARLEM (THE BEST OF HARLEM)harlem

WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE


THE UPTOWN COLLECTIVE


PARK NORTH PHYSICAL THERAPY


CALABAR IMPORTS


UP MAGAZINE


It's very much local and global. Come experience of Harlem culture. Email [email protected]


 

10/06/2021

10/06/2021

Reposted from This week’s highlights Calabar Imports (), a retail store offering stylish, eclectic, and affordable items from Africa, Asia, and South America. Read more on them below!

“Calabar Imports is a family-owned business in Brooklyn and Harlem, run by Heloise Annette Oton and her daughter, Atim Annette Oton. In spring of 2004, Heloise and Atim embarked on a voyage to develop an innovative retail store in Calabar, Nigeria. This journey gave them the opportunity to build a collection of fashion accessories, cosmetics, home decor, and more. In the months that followed, as their collection began to grow, a spur-of-the-moment thought made them explore retailing these products in New York. They started as street vendors, participating in various street fairs across Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and Connecticut. The customer feedback and merchandise testing revealed that the idea was not only feasible but a hit to shoppers! In August 2004, they made it official by opening a permanent location on Washington Ave. Today, their flagship store is on Franklin Ave and they have two other locations—one in Bed Stuy and the other in Harlem (which has expanded to a gallery). One of their favorite Brooklyn memories is when they were at their Washington Ave location and would stay open until midnight during First Saturday’s for party-goers to visit and shop. Their continued goal is to keep listening to the community they serve so that they can evolve with the times and meet everyone's needs.”

Calabar Imports
Website: calabar-imports.com
Facebook:
Twitter:
Instagram:
Location: 708 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238

10/06/2021

Reposted from This week’s highlights Calabar Imports (Calabar Imports]), a retail store offering stylish, eclectic, and affordable items from Africa, Asia, and South America. Read more on them below!

“Calabar Imports is a family-owned business in Brooklyn and Harlem, run by Heloise Annette Oton and her daughter, Atim Annette Oton. In spring of 2004, Heloise and Atim embarked on a voyage to develop an innovative retail store in Calabar, Nigeria. This journey gave them the opportunity to build a collection of fashion accessories, cosmetics, home decor, and more. In the months that followed, as their collection began to grow, a spur-of-the-moment thought made them explore retailing these products in New York. They started as street vendors, participating in various street fairs across Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and Connecticut. The customer feedback and merchandise testing revealed that the idea was not only feasible but a hit to shoppers! In August 2004, they made it official by opening a permanent location on Washington Ave. Today, their flagship store is on Franklin Ave and they have two other locations—one in Bed Stuy and the other in Harlem (which has expanded to a gallery). One of their favorite Brooklyn memories is when they were at their Washington Ave location and would stay open until midnight during First Saturday’s for party-goers to visit and shop. Their continued goal is to keep listening to the community they serve so that they can evolve with the times and meet everyone's needs.”

Calabar Imports
Website: calabar-imports.com
Facebook:   
Twitter:
Instagram:
Location: 708 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 10030

09/26/2021

JOIN US TODAY FROM 1PM TO 7PM FOR HARLEM MAKERS COLLECTIVE

We are excited to show you these new products. Come on in to check them out, we think you’ll love them as much as we do.











Will be presenting their collections
At
09.26
1-7pm
2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd

Check it out. Swing by and enjoy the creativity whilst checking out the latest exhibit on display.

Register here:

eventbrite.com/e/harlem-makers-collective-at-calabar-gallery-september-26-2021-tickets-171788472947 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harlem-makers-collective-at-calabar-gallery-september-26-2021-tickets-171788472947)

Click here for an update from Calabar Imports in Harlem located at 2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd (corner 134th Street), T: 646-964-5062. Email: [email protected]. We are Open Wednesday to Sunday, 12 - 7:30pm.!

09/01/2021

Reposted from HUGE NEWS..

So proud to have reignited this.

Please join 21 businesses in Harlem in 2 weeks. It's about ART AND HARLEM LOVE. Scroll down to see all participants abd sponsors.

Join us for:

THE RELAUNCH OF 
HARLEM ARTS STROLL

HARLEM IS: 
ART, FOOD, AND CULTURE. 

ARE YOU COMING? 

It's 2 days....

Thursday After Work Edition
SEPTEMBER 9TH: 5PM TO 8PM

Saturday Weekend Edition 
SEPTEMBER 11TH: 1PM TO 6PM 

It's about Harlem from 110th to 155th Streets with its galleries and businesses welcoming you.

It's FREE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harlem-arts-stroll-september-edition-tickets-168658272433 

Spend time in the neighborhood with: 

CALABAR GALLERY 
 

CLAIRE OLIVER GALLERY


CURTISS JACOBS GALLERY


DIASPORA NOW


HEATH GALLERY 


KENTE ROYAL GALLERY

L' ESPACE DE REVE 


LONG GALLERY 


UNDERGROUND GALLERY

Art will at:

NBHD BRULEE COFFEE SHOP


INK


MURAL BY PAUL DEO


***Some galleries & spaces open one of 2 days

SPONSORED BY: 

HARLEM BREWING COMPANY


HARLEM ONE STOP


HARLEM CAREERS


HARLEM 4 ALL


TBO HARLEM (THE BEST OF HARLEM)harlem

WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE 


THE UPTOWN COLLECTIVE


CALABAR IMPORTS
 

It's very much local and global. Come experience of Harlem culture. Email [email protected]