CELEBRATION
CELEBRATION examines the role craft plays in our holiday customs, with a focus on our winter observances and the traditions that are handed down from one generation to another as well as new rituals that define the season.
CELEBRATION features lion dancers and float builders for San Francisco’s acclaimed Chinese New Year Parade, artists in Michigan making ceramics for the holidays at Pewabic (Detroit) and Motawi Tileworks (Ann Arbor), Kwanzaa celebrations with artists in Chicago and Oakland, and Christmas card making with woodblock print artist Yoshiko Yamamoto in Tacoma, Washington. PBS premiere: December 11, 2015.
featured in this episode
Corey Chan
An early interest in Chinese arts led martial artist and historian Corey Chan to train in the ancient Chinese New Year lion dance performed annually to bring good fortune. Chan […]
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Yoshiko Yamamoto
Yoshiko Yamamoto’s love of Japanese ukiyo-e informs her blockprint and letterpress art that she creates at The Arts and Crafts Press in Tacoma, WA. Letterpress printing is a relief process, the […]
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Thomas Chun
Thomas Chun was immersed in a community of Chinese performing arts since childhood. Merely following his parents’ weekend routine, Chun eventually joined as a dancer and musician. He expanded his […]
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Travis Lum
Travis Lum is a seasoned Chinese lion dancer, martial artist, and designer. Inspired by the staccato, vigor, and excitement of the lions seen in his youth, his appreciation and knowledge for this centuries-old […]
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Jared Young
Jared Young has been involved in Chinese performing arts since early childhood. He started Chinese folk dance at a young age and his interest expanded to Chinese martial arts. Later […]
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Babatunde Graves
In Chicago, artist Babatunde has been making kinaras, the candleholders for Kwanzaa celebrations, for more than forty years. Based on African harvest celebrations, Kwanzaa is a time of self-affirmation and […]
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East West Floats
In San Francisco, the Chinese New Year festival has grown to be the largest celebration of Asian culture outside of Asia. Started in 1860 by Chinese immigrants to America, the 150-year-old tradition […]
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Motawi Tileworks
Motawi Tileworks was founded in 1992 by Nawal Motawi, who started out making tiles in her garage and selling them at the local farmers market. Utilizing Toyota-style production techniques (kanban), […]
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credits
Executive Producer & Director Carol Sauvion ∙ Producers Patricia Bischetti, Rosey Guthrie ∙ Editor Leonard Feinstein ∙ Director of Photography Sidney Lubitsch ∙ Music by Laura Karpman & Nora Kroll Rosenbaum ∙ Associate Producer Denise Kang ∙ Senior Advisor Jacoba Atlas ∙ Production Coordinator Beverly Feldman ∙ Production Controller Judy J. Hing ∙ Sound Recordist Richard K. Pooler ∙ Assistant Camera Robert W. Faison ∙ Gaffer Mark Markley ∙ Art Director Elizabeth Claffey ∙ Main Title Crew Camera Control, Inc., Andrew Dumas, Ruth Oglesby, Christopher Williams ∙ Production Assistants Emma Lubitsch, Nora Lubitsch, Bruce Miller ∙ Assistant Editor Eric Stapf ∙ Station Relations De Shields Associates, Inc. ∙ Post Production Video Shapeshifter ∙ Online Assistant Editor Cindy Fanara ∙ Colorist Dean Chu ∙ Post Production Sound Wild Woods ∙ Re-Recording Mixer Jonathan Iglecias ∙ Archival Materials Courtesy of African American Museum & Library at Oakland American Museum of Natural History Library, Archive Farms/Getty Images, CriticalPast, Detroit Institute of Arts Archive, Jin Jue, KQED, Library of Congress, Los Angeles Public Library, Motawi Tileworks, Oddball Films, Pewabic, Pond5/Dubassy/Krestafer/Picture/Stefhoffer, San Francisco Chronicle/Polaris Images/Darryl Bush/Paul Chinn, San Francisco Media Archive, Smithsonian Institute Archives, T3Media, David Thomas, Yoshiko Yamamoto ∙ Special Thanks Annette F. Brown, Laurene Chan, Louis Casinelli, Chinese Cultural Foundation of San Francisco, Detroit People Mover, Dusable Museum of African American History, Jean Edmondson, Karen Eng, Foster Park Workshop, Maggie Hasspacher, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, David Lei, Jenny Leung, Pam Marcil, Patrice Merritt, Alisha Merrow, Jeffrey Meyer Turntables, Oakstop Gallery, Ornament Magazine, Darin Ow-Wing, Trevor Parham, Steven Poster, Christa Quinn, Pemon Rami, Noah Reitman, Rachael Reitman, Suzanne Shukuru Sanders, Harlan Wong ∙ This program was produced by Craft in America, Inc. which is solely responsible for its content. © 2015 CRAFT IN AMERICA All Rights Reserved.