OTBKB is a proud sponsor of the upcoming Lyceum Spring Food and Craft Market 2010, which will take place the weekend of May 1 and 2 at the Brooklyn Lyceum on Fourth Avenue at President Street.

The market, covering two floors at the Lyceum, will highlight an impressive array of artisanal goods, including clothing, clocks, home goods, art, gifts, jams, chocolates, cheeses, craft beer and more. There will also be workshops and demos:  learn to bind a book or grab a basic lesson in chocolate making for instance.

So what does artisanal mean exactly? Handcrafted, small batch, human scale, personalized, and unbranded are a few other phrases that help to describe the kinds of things you’ll find at the market.

Over the next 7 weeks I’ll be highlighting some of the artists, whose work you’ll find at the fair. For starters:

You know I love Warpe Designs. I already have one of her beautiful lamps sitting on my writing desk at home. The holes in the lampshade (and all of her work) are individually handpunched to create the embossed effect and openings. Each pattern is unique and “painted with pins” to create this special effect.

My other pick for this week: Can’t Afford ‘Em Clocks. I thought these would make great gifts for the comic book/pop culture fanatic in your life. The artist says: “This is a an old 7″ record that I turned into an awesome wall clock. This clock is decoupaged with scenes from an old, 1990’s Spideman comic. This is a one of a kind piece of wall art that will also tell you the time. The clock has a couple of coats of mod-podge so it will be fine if it gets water or something of that sort on it.” He  can also custom make a clock with your preference of comic, or something else.