Some hands create to record a place and time; others are more intimate gestures about personal histories. In any case our Nation’s collective memory can become tangible when we examine objects created by the hand. This educational guide helps develop craft in a larger context, providing educators with material that will relate to and reflect the core ideas and art forms presented in the Memory episode.

We’ve set up guides for you in two ways: as individual theme guides covering the educators themes for “Memory”: Fragments, Roots, and Hand to Home; (these are not contained in Memory) and as a full guide that interweaves all the materials into one document plan. Click on “Learn More” for each of them, and you’ll find a link to download these pdfs. Then decide for yourself how you’d like to proceed with your class. Your students will be exposed to craft artists, the work they have created, and the way artists are influenced by their individual and collective pasts. It’s a great journey – and these guides are the perfect travel companions for the trip.