Over the course of five hours, major influences on craft artists come to life: Memory, Landscape, Community, Origins, and Process. How does each play a part in how craft came to be? What about them drives artists to do what they do? How do craft artists develop and adapt their techniques in today’s world?
Through their own words, dozens of craft artists reveal what makes their work – and the lives they lead – unique. View the programs online or purchase DVDs of the Peabody Award-winning series for your home library.
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What inspires a person to choose a career in craft? And how does one acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to become a craft artist.
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Craft traditions didn’t just appear, fully-formed and mature. Artists tie their work to early techniques and pass these practices on in a continuum of creativity.
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This hour focuses on the groups that give strength to craft artists and their work, as schools, religions, societies, or just friends bring together people to create.
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The second episode considers the physical landscape, as well as the political and social influences on artists, and how they translate into the objects they make.
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The first in the CRAFT IN AMERICA series, Memory observes how past is prologue, and looks to the dynamic of cultural history and personal heritage in creating objects.
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CRAFT IN AMERICA is the culmination of nine years of planning. Here is the team that made the series possible.
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