Art & Craft shopping in Jamaica
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Wassi Art
Family-owned Wassi Art employs over fifty artists to make its colorful, richly decorated terra-cotta pottery. It is named for the ‘wassi’ wasp, or potter wasp, which makes a mud pot for each of her eggs and stuffs it with a caterpillar for food for her hatchlings. Free tours are offered, detailing the entire process including painting and firing. A store sells work (US$5 to US$5000). The owners will ship.
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Local craftsmen still make goombay drums here. These - along with an array of medicinal herbs, calabashes and abeng horns - are for sale in the tiny red-and-green-painted craft shop as you enter town. The hand-carved goombay drum is box-shaped and covered with goatskin, and makes a wonderfully deep and resonant racket.
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R Stewart
In Drapers you’ll find the roadside gallery of renowned self-taught artist R Stewart, who more than likely will be working on his latest canvas at the edge of the road. His whimsical, masterful depictions of Jamaican life regularly inspire impulse buys from passersby.
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Rutland Point Craft Centre
There are three main crafts centers: Rutland Point Craft Centre opposite Couples Negril, the Negril Crafts Market just north of Plaza de Negril and A Fi Wi Plaza.
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A Fi Wi Plaza
There are three main crafts centers: Rutland Point Craft Centre opposite Couples Negril, the Negril Crafts Market just north of Plaza de Negril and A Fi Wi Plaza.
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Negril Crafts Market
There are three main crafts centers: Rutland Point Craft Centre opposite Couples Negril, the Negril Crafts Market just north of Plaza de Negril and A Fi Wi Plaza.
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Swa Craft Centre
Behind the Manchester Shopping Plaza, this place trains young women to make a living from crochet, embroidery, weaving and so on. Its most appealing item is the famous ‘banana patch’ Rastafarian doll.
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Philip Henry’s Art Bus
You might call in at Philip Henry’s Art Bus, roadside at Turtle Crawle Bay, to check out his array of woodcarving and assorted crafts.
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Island Sculpture
Opposite Swaby’s Plaza, here a local called ‘LT’ crafts precious lignum vitae into abstract animal and mystical forms.
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Mermaid Art Gallery
Part of the Calabash House hotel, this recently opened gallery specializes in excellent local woodwork and tie-dyed clothing.
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Kuyaba Arts and Crafts Boutique
Kuyaba Arts and Crafts Boutique at the Kuyaba hotel sells Wassi Art pottery and other quality crafts.
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Ja-Ja Originals
Traditional gallery showing original painting and sculpture by noted local artists.
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Collectibles Art Gallery
Traditional gallery showing original painting and sculpture by noted local artists.
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Kush Art Gallery
Kush Art Gallery sells Wassi Art pottery and other quality crafts.
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Mutual Life Gallery
Features contemporary Jamaican art.
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Supersad Studios
Features contemporary Jamaican art.
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Contemporary Art Centre
Features contemporary Jamaican art.
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Marso
Features contemporary Jamaican art.
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Chelsea Galleries
Features contemporary Jamaican art.
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Gallery Pegasus
Features contemporary Jamaican art.
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Grosvenor Gallery
Features contemporary Jamaican art.
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Ocho Rios Craft Park
For craft stalls, Ocho Rios Craft Park and Dunn’s River Craft Park both have dozens, as do Pineapple Place, to the east of town, and Coconut Grove Shopping Village, which is opposite Beaches Royal Plantation Golf Resort & Spa. Fern Gully, to the south of Ocho Rios, is lined with stalls where artists sell their paintings and carvings at prices marginally lower than you’ll find elsewhere.
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