Fine Craft Show to fill Brooklyn Museum with fine gifts, fashion and art
This holiday season, the American Fine Craft Show Brooklyn will, for the first time, fill the Brooklyn Museum with 90 exhibits of handmade fine crafts and art for sale from Brooklyn artisans and artists, as well as from others from around the country. The exhibition will take place in the landmark Brooklyn Museum Beaux-Arts Court from Dec. 13-14, and will feature, from Brooklyn, three jewelers, two artists and a fashion designer who join five artisans in home décor: two glassmakers, two ceramists and one who embroiders decorative pillows.
Among the exhibiting Brooklyn artists is Alicia Degener, who hails from Detroit. She finds Brooklyn to be a visual feast and subject of most of her work. Currently a Bay Ridge resident, she first “fell in love with Sunset Park, which was full of rusting industrial landscapes, empty lots, boarded up warehouses in Bush Terminal which reminded me much of Detroit. I especially loved the green, rusty arches of the Gowanus expressway and spent my free time with my sketchbook down along Hamilton Avenue.