Who We Are
Sullivan Public is a community artspace and home to Studio Jessie Lazar, a ceramic studio and shop specializing in handmade pottery, home goods and vintage. We feature beautiful rugs by Vintage Marroc, Handmade bags and clothing from Namai Studio. We are host to fine vintage and antique decor retailer Surface + Shape and to Concrete Spa, offering excellent vintage home goods as well as repair and restore services for furniture.
We are also the proud home of Kristin Texiera’s and Travis Webber’s painting studios. Wonderful creative additions to our growing community at SP.
Sullivan Public’s mission is to provide a base for artists to make, teach and sell their skilled work. We expose people to the enrichment and personal connection that naturally builds around art and creative craft and beautiful objects.
We offer creative workshops for adults, free art afterschool classes, and free weekend art classes for kids. The majority of class fees are paid to our instructors. We host community events year round. We strive to encourage and nurture diversity.
We are a place to gather, to shop, make art and to grow community for all the folks that share these woods.
Jessie Lazar
Potter / Teacher / Founder Sullivan Public
In 2013 we found this special area of Sullivan County and fell in love. After a decade of enjoying the beauty here, we decided it was time to give back and Sullivan Public was born. We worked hard to create a hub that aims to house our growing vibrant community. This has been a space for me to make, sell and teach her creative love - ceramics. And to do so in the company of other amazing makers and mamas and their creative energies.
I make simple everyday items to elevate our daily lives, daily tables and daily rituals.
Kristin Texeira
ArtistI paint to remember. Through subtle shifts in colors or ranges of contrasting colors, I attempt to create something familiar, and—at the same time—something entirely elusive and intangible, like a forgotten word on the tip of one's tongue. My colors blend and bounce off of each other. They tell of a person or place's ambiguous history. This vagueness is complemented by specifics in my writing, which—while focusing on a moment's singular identity and tender details—leaves much to the viewers' interpretation.
Travis Weber
Artist
Travis is a designer and painter living in Lumberland New York.
Kara Khan
Teaching Artist
Kara Khan is a mother, photographer and artist working with alternative and historical processes, book making, fibers, and a growing list of natural materials. Her research based practice is rooted in collaboration, experimentation, and direct action. As a teaching artist, Khan has shared the value of historic and alternative processes through workshops and demonstrations at schools, art institutions, and out of her studio. Her work has been shown nationally and published in the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Magazine, among others. Kara has spent over 15 years working with children of all ages both as a nanny and art educator.
Kelley Simons
Teaching Artist
Kelley Simons Syed is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work explores memory, resilience, and the deep connections between the body and the environment. Through drawing, painting, and installation, Kelley transforms materials into layered works that honor care, resistance, and renewal.
As a teacher, she brings this same spirit of curiosity and experimentation to the classroom, guiding students to explore nature, play with materials, and find their own creative voice. Her philosophy emphasizes process over perfection—valuing discovery, humor, and self-expression as essential parts of learning.
Irene Molloy Clancy
Teaching Artist
Irene is a singer-songwriter, musician and teacher. She has released two EPs, a solo album and performed in venues across the US. Irene’s songs have been played on radio stations like WXPN and WFUV. She has also spent years teaching vocal technique, songwriting and theater arts.
Irene joins SP to share her passion and training, leading a joyful children’s chorus and offering private signing lessons.
www.irenemolloy.com
Lia Strasser
Teaching Artist
Lia Strasser is a fine artist based in Sullivan County, NY. Her work centers on form, gesture, and emotional presence, moving between close observation and more simplified, expressive approaches. With a foundation in classical training, she teaches drawing as a process of seeing clearly and translating that into direct, confident marks. Her approach emphasizes intuition, ease, and staying connected to the experience of making, rather than focusing on perfection. She regularly exhibits her work and has been published in The New Yorker.
Lia is joining SP to share her deep love, skill and knowledge of figure drawing. We are thrilled to bring her energy and immense passion to the community
@liastrasser