HOLIDAY
Embrace traditions, both familiar and new – all part of our American experience with the handmade. HOLIDAY features ceramic artist Susan Garson, Garcia Art Glass, paper artist Kathleen Trenchard, ceramic artist Veronica Castillo, National Gingerbread House Competition at Grove Park Inn, Biltmore House, woodcarver Harley Refsal, and John C. Campbell Folk School. PBS premiere: December 20, 2013.
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Harley Refsal
Harley Refsal (1944–2024) was an internationally recognized figure carver, specializing in Scandinavian flat-plane wood carving. Raised in Minnesota, he lived in Norway in the 1960s and 1980s, and traveled extensively […]
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Susan Garson
Susan Garson grew up knowing that she would lead a life in the arts. When she began her master’s work at UCLA, she was drawn to ceramics and decided to […]
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Veronica Castillo
Veronica Castillo is a ceramic artist who crafts exquisitely detailed, brightly colored folk art objects using centuries-old methods and symbols. She is a member of the honored Castillo Orta folk […]
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Kathleen Trenchard
Kathleen Trenchard has researched and worked in traditional Mexican papel picado (punched paper) ever since the early ‘90s when she was introduced to the technique in Huixcolotla, Mexico. Her work […]
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Gini Garcia
Gini Garcia is a glass blower, designer and founder of Garcia Art Glass. Commissioned by both public institutions and private corporations, she has completed more than 50 site-specific works. Garcia […]
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Isabel & Enrique Sanchez
Isabel and Enrique Sánchez have been active in the Chicano pride movement which started in San Antonio in the late 1960s. They continue to pass on family traditions and culture […]
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Garcia Art Glass
Garcia Art Glass was founded by Gini Garcia in 1998 and is now a family-run hot glass design and fabrication studio that specializes in one-of-a-kind blown glass lighting and sculpture. […]
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John C. Campbell Folk School
Located in the mountains of western North Carolina, the John C. Campbell Folk School offers week long and weekend courses in traditional craft, fine art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, nature […]
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National Gingerbread House Competition
In 1992, the Gingerbread Competition began as a small, mostly local event held at The Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC, and has now grown to become one of the […]
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Biltmore Estate
The Biltmore House, built in 1895, is the largest privately owned home in the United States boasting a magnificent estate with 250 rooms and 8,000 acres in the Blue Ridge […]
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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 ∙ 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., Drew Dumas, Ruth Oglesby, Christopher Williams ∙ Assistant Editors Kinga Brooks, Jed Lackritz, Emily-Rose Wagner ∙ Additional Music by Nora Kroll Rosenbaum ∙ Station Relations De Shields Associates, Inc. ∙ Translators Joan Sauvion, Zan Romanoff ∙ Post Production Video Shapeshifter ∙ Colorist Dean Chu ∙ Post Production Sound Wild Woods ∙ Re-Recording Mixer Jonathan Iglecias ∙ Archival Materials Courtesy of Biltmore, Garcia Art Glass, Susan Garson, Michael Smith for McNay Art Museum, Harley Refsal, Kathleen Trenchard, Doris Ulmann ∙ Special Thanks David Bibbs, Robert G. Dalsemer, Gini Garcia, Susan A. Grode, Grove Park Inn, Marissa Jamison, Jeffrey Meyer Turntables, John C. Campbell Folk School, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, David Liden, Nevei Kodesh Congregation, Ornament Magazine, Martha Owen, Steven Poster, Noah Reitman, Rachael Reitman, Janet Vasquez ∙ In Memory of Eudorah M. Moore ∙ This program was produced by Craft in America, Inc. which is solely responsible for its content. © 2013 Craft In America, All Rights Reserved.