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, exciting additions joining fall 2025.
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, after school 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
After making, selling and teaching ceramics in my home town of NYC for over a decade our family have ventured to live upstate in the Western Catskills. We have fallen in love with this beautiful area and the special creative community here in the woods. Sullivan Public is a hub that aims to house our growing vibrant community. To lend space to share, learn, gather and play. Creating Sullivan Public to enrich this community, our kids, the visitors and locals has been an honor and total pleasure.
I love to work with clay and to teach and to make simple everyday items to elevate our daily lives, daily tables and daily rituals.
Kristen 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.
Kayleen Berry
Teaching Artist
Kayleen’s practice merges surrealism with field research. Collaborating with scientists and ecologists to investigate themes of extinction, migration, and the complex relationship between humans and the natural world.
Berry’s emotionally charged compositions often feature intricately rendered animals in dreamlike, symbolic landscapes. As a ‘Diasporican,’ her work reflects on themes of displacement, hybridity, and resilience, inviting viewers into liminal worlds where myth, memory, and ecology intersect.
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
Stephanie Porto
Teaching Artist
Stephanie is a Licensed Master Social Worker and community facilitator based in Sullivan County. She works as a clinician with children, teens, and families at Astor Child & Family Services, and her background spans community organizing, fine arts, and commercial art production. Blending her passion for mental health, creativity, and community building, Stephanie’s upcoming children’s art series at Sullivan Public will create an inclusive space where young people can explore identity, expression, connection, and growth.
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.
Concrete Spa
Retail
if it aint broke, don’t fix it. if it is broke, we will fix it.
flip it. sell it. repair as resistance.
art! we sell art too.
big objects. tiny objects. design. curation. sourcing.
hire woman. buy from women.
WE DIE. OBJECTS LIVE FOREVER.
Surface & Shape
Retail
A curated showcase of textures, forms, and layers.
Surface & Shape celebrates the artistry of vintage furniture — offering pieces that bring sophistication and character into the modern home.
Founded by Sarasola Interiors, the collection reflects a designer’s eye for beauty with purpose, honoring sustainability as a form of luxury.
Namai Studio
Namai is an independent, New York-based fashion brand founded by Bianca Kuttickattu in 2020. We create timeless, zero-waste clothing from repurposed antique Indian textiles that can be worn by people of all genders, all year round.
We celebrate bold textile traditions, circular design, and slow fashion. Each garment begins with a storied material—antique quilts, saris, or hand-loomed cotton—hand-selected for its beauty and soul. Designed in New York and crafted in India, our pieces are a bridge between cultures and generations.
Vintage Maroc
During multiple trips to the country, we fell further in love with the true essence of Morocco - the people. Their hospitality, their genuine nature and, of course, their crafts(wo)manship are unparalleled.
We specialize in vintage carpets; from beni mguild to boucherouite and everything in between, we scour the best spots in Morocco for these handmade, durable, one-of-a-kind works of art for your home. While they are vintage, we seek out only timeless pieces in good condition that are the perfect fit for modern interior design.