The Foundry collaborates with approximately 30 Small Business Fellows on an annual basis, providing them with private space, business support, and shared access to a diverse array of makerspaces. These makerspaces include a woodshop, metalshop, tech lab, and textile lab.
Our Small Business Fellows play a pivotal role in shaping the programs and initiatives at The Foundry. Many of them also serve as educators in our youth and adult programs, generously contributing their expertise and passion.
You can engage through e-commerce by supporting the businesses of our Fellows listed below.
For more information on our Small Business Fellow program contact Tamara Zantell, Business Development Director at [email protected].
Current SMALL BUSINESS FELLOWS at The Foundry
Suite 100 - Made 2 Make It
- Custom Apparel & Accessories & Meaningful Gifts made with love.
Suite 101 - Mother Earth Literacies
- Guided by environmental justice, we help organizations connect to neighborhoods in sustainability and environmentally friendly ways.
Suite 102 - Cloud and Field
Suite 103 - Bue's Beads
- Waistbeads promoting body positivity, confidence & self-healing through body adornment, Handcrafted items charged with positivity, great energy & good vibes
Suite 104 - Felise Design
Suite 105 - TJ Divine Image
- Personal branding company that works to create a seamless, memorable and empowering experience for women of influence.
Suite 106 - Unapologetically PHAT
- Unapologetically.PHAT (Pheeling Happy About Thyself) is a body-positive fashion brand that uplifts and inspires men/women to embrace who they are.
Suite 109 - FASHION59/ Shandra Lannie
- Fashion design and alterations
Suite 112/114 - DMBALLOONS
Suite 113 - Juliar Ink
- Custom metal and wood furniture with form and function
Suite 115 - cmlb designs
- Cosmic Debris Fine Jewelry- handmade bespoke pieces by a trained silversmith
Suite 117 - Black & Birdy Pottery
- Handmade pottery inspired by nature
Suite 119 - Keas Closet
Suite 120 - Aille Design
- Aille Design (pronounced: eye) is an emerging designer brand that works alongside the blind and visually impaired community to create clothing with a fashion statement you can feel.
Suite 121 - Phyllis Rubino & Lara Martini
Suite 122 - Freed
Suite 123 - Luff Made
Suite 130/131/133 - Buffalo Bottle Craft
- Maker of The PuckOpener, a bottle opener made from a REAL hockey puck.
Suite 201 - The LISH Agency
- Advertising Agency specializing in creative campaigns and digital media design.
Suite 202 - Jillian Hanesworth
- The first poet laureate of Buffalo
Suite 203 - Yann Spindler
Suite 204 - Customs by Tai
- Customizing your pop-ularity with personalized figures
Suite 206 - Let Rose Speak
- Let Rose Speak is a community for women who been mistreated, misused, abused or feel lost
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Suite 111 - WAY Program - OLV Human Services
Suite 205 - TSCWNY/WNY YouthBuild
Suite 300 - Bootsector
Interested in becoming a Foundry Small Business Fellow? Click here for more information!
PAST FOUNDRY SMALL BUSINESSES
- Abeille Glassworks
- Anything Arts
- Arthaus Buffalo
- Atinga Project
- Bawse Beauti Collection
- Bertholt LLC
- Bflo Boho
- Billamy's Woodworking
- Boujichick and Bella la vie Collection
- Bullhead Graphics
- Catch a Falling Jar
- Dreamers Inc.
- Drift.etc
- Eerie Delights
- Free Spirited Rebels
- Tim Genco
- GraFieTi
- Heru's Auto
- Huggins Home Decor
- Inclusive Theater of WNY
- Jose Fuentes
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Joseph Shishi
- Kaelin Lariviere
- Kamau Fields
- Kelley Design Group Inc.
- Knotty Buffalo
- Knotty Moose Studio
- MacKenzie Arcement
- mmDesign716
- NdigNus Market
- Nickel City Cycles
- Normal Bicycles
- Not Too Shabby Miniatures
- Paula Coleman Art Dealer
- Realist Creators
- Royalize Effect Waistbeads
- Sam Horowitz - Sculpture
- Shasworld Customs
- Sit Upholstery
- Solid Smart Time Apparel
- The Buffalo Estate
- Well-Served
- Windkanter Construction
- Zandra
Page Updated 11/2023