A tip in East Side Monthly sent us to Peaceable Kingdom on Ives Street to check out the nativities. This year Joan and Philip Ritchie have over 100 folk art nativity scenes for sale, clearly fabricated from whatever materials the practitioners happen to have access to.
. . . clay ones from Kenya, Mexico, Vietnam; alabaster from Peru; paper mache from Peru and India; carved wood from Tanzania, Indonesia and Guatemala; sand cast beads from Ghana; and soapstone from Kenya and India.
Seen here: the Vietnamese “Weebles” on the left were made out of tightly folded magazine pages. Minimalists will like that antler carving as well as the threesome found in the store window made out of bottle caps and steel wool. (Picture after the jump.)
Peaceable Kingdom, 116 Ives Street, 351.3472 (Holiday hours: Monday through Saturday 11am to 6pm; Sunday noon to 5pm; Friday evenings until 8pm)
Woven bowls made of telephone wire — Zulu