Fine Art and Craft Show This Sunday ... Great Holiday and Wedding Presents!
The Fall 2013 Art and Craft in the Garden Show will take place on Sunday October 13 from 12- 5pm at 690 East 18th Street (between Glenwood and Foster Avenues) in Brooklyn. If using the subway, take the Q or B train to Newkirk Avenue. Twenty artisans and artists, most of them local to Brooklyn, will showcase, sell, and talk about their work. The show will take place the garden of a lovely Victorian house. Homemade refreshments will also be available. Admission is free.
CJ Segal-Isaacson, who is both the show's creator and one of the artisans, says her inspiration was a desire to create a hyperlocal fine art and craft show with an extremely high level of artistic skill and passion.
A wide spectrum of arts, all of it handmade, will be available: Art glass, jewelry, ceramics, hand-felted shawls and scarves, batik pillows, cosmetics, fine art, high fashion as well as functional hats, photography, carved wooden bowls, hand-dyed scarves, cosmetics and handbags.
As a special attraction, guest artisan and master Ebru fabric painter Richard Aldorasi will guide those interested in creating their own intricately colorful silk scarves. The Ebru method of dying scarves originated in Turkey in the 15th century and involves layering different colors of fabric paint on a gel-filled trough. Flowers, ribbons and pinwheels of color are created by drawing a stylus across the layered paint floating on the gel's surface. A pre-treated length of fine white silk is then gently placed on top of the paint and immediately picks up the pattern permanently. After a quick washing, the scarf is ready to take home. A short video of Mr. Aldorasi showing a child how to create a flower can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcjrI2Rn-rw .
Also featured are Mary Ellen Buxton and Kevin Kutch, the glass artists of Redhook's Pier Glass. Ms. Buxton described their glass-making process as a collaborative process of first sketching the idea and then committing it to form by blowing air into clear and colored melted glass to create the desired form. Once the glass has cooled, which Ms. Buxton adds, can take a month on large pieces, the shape is further refined through different stages of sanding and polishing. Pier glass will be bringing both decorative and moderately-priced functional glass objects on Sunday.
For more information contact CJ Segal-Isaacson at (718) 462-5607or email hungrycatcafejewelry@verizon.net.