The semiannual City Island Arts and Crafts Fair is back by special demand. Organizers are calling all artists to share handmade items.
The weather outside is delightful for the City Island Chamber of Commerce to host another arts and crafts fair.
CICC was established more than 100 years ago to unite the businesses of City Island. Come and spend the day or the weekend on City Island - A Slice of NYC Paradise.
The Arts and Crafts movement emerged during the late Victorian period in England, the most industrialized country in the world at that time. Anxieties about industrial life fueled a positive revaluation of handcraftsmanship and precapitalist forms of culture and society.
Life's a whirlwind, isn't it? But hey, no worries! Our fair is here to attract. We've added some seriously cool things to make your Saturday and Sunday easier.
Art Nouveau is much more focused on representing the natural world whereas arts and crafts focused on interacting and playing up the beauty in the natural world. A&C put a lot of emphasis on showing the materials used and designing around a space (think Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water building). AN was so intricate that it didn't catch on very much in regards to furniture, it was expensive and production took a lot of time, but the posters were huge (Alphonse Mucha, for example). It went on to greatly influence psychedelic art in the 60s.
A&C was all about craftsmanship and making pieces that were masterful and often furniture and fixtures were designed for specific locations. Everything from the building to wall sconces, to stained glass windows matched (this was common in some art nouveau but the expense of it caused it to be seen more in individual pieces than entire buildings and rooms) A&C saw a lot more blocky and geometric shapes and seemed closer to the Bauhaus principles 8https://cityislandchamber.org/