CERAMIST JUDITH ELOISE HOOPER, PARK SLOPE AND T-SHIRT ARTIST TOM TOOMEY, SOUTH SLOPE, TWO OF 40 ARTISANS AND ARTISTS AT NYCREATES HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR DEC. 6-7 AT THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Ceramist Judith Eloise Hooper, Park Slope and Tom Toomey, TCat Designs, an artist and t-shirt designer, South Slope, will join 38 other artists and artisans at the NYCreates 11th Holiday Craft Fair December 6-7, 2014, in the landmark Brooklyn Historical Society’s Great Hall. There will be 19 Brooklyn-based artists at the fair.

NYCreates is a non-profit organization [501c3], committed to expand opportunities, visibility and marketability of NYC’s crafts artists and artisans.

Hooper—who is also NYCreates executive director--describes herself as “an artist who just likes making things.” She attended Pratt Institute for fashion design and has been a successful fashion and children’s book illustrator. Most recently she has designed tabletop collections and ceramic landscapes in her Park Slope studio. In addition to co-chairing Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Art in Clay shows-within-a-show and managing the organization’s gallery, she has been the executive director of NYCreates since 2013.

Toomey, also known as TCat, is the creative force behind TCat Designs, He left his full-time job as an arts educator in the New York Public School system in 2006 to pursue his dream of t-shirt design, original collage art, painting, and writing children’s books. He says his t-shirts are popular among the infant and toddler set in the 5 boroughs, throughout the U.S. and beyond such as Paris, Moscow, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and The Philippines.

Among the artisans and artists with Brooklyn studios, the largest number specialize in handcrafted ceramics that reflect a remarkable range of creativity in ornaments and table jewelry to handsome mugs, teapots–even napkin rings and salt cellars. In addition to ceramist Hooper and artist/t-shirt designer Toomey, the borough also boasts jewelers, a photographer, candle maker and crochet expert as well as fine artists who will exhibit and sell their best work in time for the holidays.

Information: Visit http://newyorkcreates.wordpress.com/
Where: Brooklyn Historical Society’s Great Hall, 128 Pierrepont Street @ Clinton
Hours: Saturday December 6, 12 pm - 6 pm; Sunday December 7 11 am-5 pm
Tickets: FREE