Learn about the Year of American Craft

Michael W. Monroe, curator-in-charge from 1974—1995 of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum on the Year of American Craft. Bonus video from the DEMOCRACY episode, exploring how craft is intertwined with our nation’s defining principles. PBS broadcast premiere December 11, 2020.

Archival images courtesy of Diego Delso, George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Sharon Farmer, Ann Stock, John Bigelow Taylor, The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, The White House, Michael W. Monroe.