By
Roger Clark
Manhattan
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Even though Atim Annette Oton's Calabar Gallery in Harlem has only been officially open for eight months, she has plenty of art in the corner spot on 134th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, where the spotlight is on African American, African and Caribbean artists.
"The goal was to make the gallery focus around a local community and a global community," said Oton, who is from Nigeria and attended college nearby at City College.
She was an architect and worked in the academic world before opening her first business 16 years ago. Calabar Imports has two locations in Brooklyn. She had curated art shows there, but at this Harlem location, the focus is on being a gallery.