CAB Collective
Artists & Organizations
CAB Collective Artists House of Arulu & Jungle Branch have been creating portraits of various mask personas. Most recently of which is their “Flood Spirit, Helene” series, depicting Arulu’s Appalachian Black Bear mask that embodies the spirit of Hurricane Helene. In this series, the mask also represents the bear and all other wildlife in the region, as well as us humans, trying to make sense of the loss and devastation.
Alejo’s art pays homage to culture and traditions while simultaneously destroying, and transforming them. He uses his art to demystify process, stimulate conversation, and deconstruct our disembodied hollow culture.
We're dedicated to farming regeneratively to nourish the soil, zero synthetic sprays or inputs, responsible use of plastics and delivering the highest quality products to our customers. Our goal is to create an ecosystem where all anthophiles- birds, bees, people- come together to appreciate the beauty of flowers.
My art reflects my love of nature, geometry, cartoons, and punk aesthetics. I love to explore the wax and wane between light and shadow, growth and decay, and natural and man-made.
I find stained glass the perfect medium for expressing my creativity. I draw my inspiration heavily from African tribes and cultures but also from Southeast Asian and Asian cultures-the latter due to exposure via my late father. I enjoy finding unique and non-traditional ways to experiment and create with the glass.
My body of work is diverse, inspired, and personal. It mirrors my vivid culture and its colors and textures. I aim to share my story and the love for the Mexican traditions I grew up with. I am also inspired by nature. Each of my paintings represents a vision of nature, a sight forever frozen in time by the touch of paint.
I’m really inspired by the colors of the seasons and the plants that come out during them. My work is usually very season based. I’m also very inspired by my culture. I love incorporating cempasúchil, monarch butterflies, and other cultural iconography into my beadwork, especially around día de muertos.
Edwin Salas is dedicated to introducing the world of puppetry, theater, and dance to make dark worlds and talk about difficult themes from personal to political. Build Puppets in wood or other materials, teacher of puppetry, puppeteer, writer, dancing, and actor. Edwin is also working on his visual art project "My Happy Dark Place." Where he mixes the dark humor of Mexico with horror pop art.
I draw a lot of inspiration for my felted creations from my everyday life. I like being outdoors alot and Im highly drawn to water so you will often times see those elements emerge in some form throughout my art. I hope to eventually one day go onto to animate my felted creations Into original stop motion shorts as stop motion animation is another art form I've loved since a child that brings me great joy.
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I have now been practicing the art of Kokedama for around 10 years and I am still just as excited and curious about the process as I was when I first started, just that now that feeling multiplies when I teach this wonderful art to others in my workshops.
Salvador collaborates with his family in Mexico to create pieces, as well as create unique silver, gold and beaded jewelry works. He hopes that his pieces showcase his culture and bring people joy.
Arulu is a multimedia visual artist based in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She specializes in the sculpting of clay and paper-mache masks inspired by her elaborate dreams and the spiritual dimension of the natural world. Arulu’s interest in making masks originates in her study of the ancient ceremonial use of masks worldwide for healing, protection, and communication with spirits and ancestors.
House of Arulu
My artwork reflects the sum of my fascination and obsession with patterns, lines, numbers and math, and my natural draw to duality and attraction of opposites. As a self taught artist, being oblivious to hue, tint, light and shadow, I learned to use depth with sharp lines and layers built upon layers and layers to achieve the vibrance of color and richness of texture.
Photography is a form of therapy for me, and something I’ve mainly allowed my heart to guide me on. It’s a medium exploration by way of forced variety, a constant discovery of ways to weave stories and capture this planets magic and woes. As the founder of Caravan Art Bazaar, I try to weave my photographic practice into the work and lives of the artists within this Collective. I treat photography as a mission to highlight the stories of others, to educate & inspire, and to document the disappearing places of this world.
We seek to support racial justice and food sovereignty through the free distribution of high quality, hand forged garden tools to BIPOC who grow food or want to start.
I feel that each critter is a little ray of light and serves a special purpose on this earth and that’s where I got the inspiration to name my business, Little Ray of Light Design, LLC. My time in nature always blows me away and that’s where I find my inspiration to paint whimsical wildlife art.
I’m really connected to telling the story of reclaiming the autonomy of my own body, body image and healing generational trauma through art. In this environment of capitalism and repression, we view nudity as either pornographic or a function of sexual gaze; when in fact it is just our natural state of eroticism and sensuality that flows into all the creative parts of our lives, including motherhood and nature.
I like to create warm and bright images that not only make myself happy but also, hopefully bring joy to others. I do a mix of personal characters and commissioned characters; drawing primarily character busts but also little made up creatures, I hope to do more scenes that tell a story and pay homage to my background.
My artworks often explore primal emotions, the beauty of the human form, and seek to unravel the veil over the eyes of humanity and remind us of our oneness with nature. My creative process is often seemingly chaotic, organically unfolding as I work, channeling inspiration from dreams or a specific emotions and the voices of the materials. Almost everything has something to say if we listen..
Challenging the capitalist norm of art sales, CAB does not charge our artists fees or keep a percentage of sales. Instead of a for-profit approach, CAB uses art for good by donating a percent of sales from participating artist works to various grassroots mutual aid programs near and far.
CAB has helped raise over $14,000 in funds for Hurricane Helene disaster relief in North Carolina, rainforest conservation in Peru and Sumatra, community land stewardship near Cherokee, affordable housing in Swannanoa NC, urban farming in Asheville, cultural preservation in Vietnam, community art experiences and more!
CAB’s ART4AID Program
