7 Brooklyn-Based Artisans Featured In This Weekend’s American Fine Craft Show
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Just in time for holiday shopping, the Brooklyn Museum is hosting the fifth annual American Fine Craft Show this weekend.
The work of 84 fine artists, fashion designers, art glass makers, milliners, and sculptors from around the country will be on sale. The wares of seven Brooklyn-based makers—three jewelers, three furniture makers, and one ceramist—will also be featured. Learn more about these local artisans below.
Jewelers
Ariko Jewelry – Bay Ridge-based Yuko Matsumur creates one-of-a-kind pieces using recycled precious metals—gold, platinum, sterling silver, as well as diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and semi-precious stones. Her organic aesthetic showcases the beauty of the natural materials she works with.
Michal Lando Design – The Prospect Heights-based jeweler developed a technique of applying heat to shape her materials into new forms for ethereal and delicate effects. She says her latest work is “based on a kind of controlled unraveling.”
Sonja Fries – The Bed-Stuy based artist uses traditional jewelry-making methods—sawing, forging, and soldering, as well as recycled metals and diamonds to create rings, cuffs, bracelets, and necklaces. Fries says, “Jewelry is architecture for the human body.”
Furniture Makers
Everyman Works, LLC – The Gowanus-based team of Michael and Alexandra Miller creates handcrafted furniture featuring marquetry and inlay for their cabinets, side tables, mirrors, and more.
Keep Furniture – The Gowanus-based custom furniture designer Steven Bennett creates ergonomic, minimalist tables, cabinets, stools and centerpieces using locally sourced, sustainable hardwood.
Luke Malaney Furniture – This Red Hook-based woodworker creates coffee tables, chairs, couches, daybeds, desks, and more using American hardwoods sourced locally from reclaimed or fallen trees.
Ceramist
Mings Monsters – Fort Greene-based Ming Yuen-Schat shapes each of his ceramic monsters by hand and embraces imperfect, asymmetrical, and deliberately crude shapes over slick, commercialized, machine-made objects.
The American Fine Craft Show Brooklyn is produced by An American Craftsman Galleries, a supporter of crafts artists since 1982. Tickets to the craft show include general admission to the Brooklyn Museum.
American Fine Craft Show Brooklyn
Saturday, November 18 and Sunday, November 19, 11am to 6pm
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor, Prospect Heights
Tickets $16 at door, $14 online; seniors $14; students $10; museum members $8