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- Threads explores the needle arts including weaving, storytelling through quilts and textiles that speak to the creativity of the human spirit.
- Craft traditions did not just appear fully-formed. Artists tie their work to early techniques and pass these practices on to others in a continuum of creativity.
- Considers the physical landscape as well as the political and social influences on artists and how they translate into the objects they make.
- Community 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.
- Memory observes how past is prologue, and looks to the dynamic of cultural history and personal heritage in creating objects.
- NATURE: Celebrating the beauty, inspiration, and future of the American landscape.
- Craft in America: Holiday embraces familiar and new winter celebrations of our American experience with the handmade. Celebrates some of our most important cultural and religious customs and leads viewers directly to their own creativity.
- Learn about contemporary quilters from diverse traditions as we celebrate the important role quilts have played in our country's story. Featuring Susan Hudson, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, Michael A. Cummings, and Judith Content.
- Artists explore issues of gender, race, culture and place, offering true expressions of their experience in this world. Featuring potter Diego Romero, photographer Cara Romero, furniture maker Wendy Maruyama, and sculptor Cristina Córdova.
- DEMOCRACY explores how craft is intertwined with our nation's defining principles
- STORYTELLERS highlights artists who use narrative to communicate personal stories and universal truths.
- The second season of the Peabody Award-winning series, Process captures the beauty, creativity and originality of the handmade. The film highlights the artists and their mediums to explore what they do, how they do it, and why they have chosen a life of creating art. Featuring the 92nd Street Y, jewelers Dave & Roberta Williamson, ceramic artists Cary Esser and Nikki Lewis, Kansas City Art Institute, North Bennet Street School, book artist Julie Chen, and printmaker Tom Killion.
- Messages looks at the ways many craft artists go beyond skill to personal and political expression. They use craft to tell a story, prove a point, experiment, or bring attention to contemporary issues.
- Explore the creative environments and personal dynamics of four families of craft artists.
- JEWELRY explores the history, artistry, and impact of personal adornment.
- HARMONY bridges the art forms of music and craft, celebrating the joy of music and the creation of handcrafted instruments. Featuring Marc Savoy, Ann Savoy, Susan Lipkins, Doug Naselroad, Richard Jolley and Tommie Rush.
- Crossroads: Explore the crossroads of craft where change evolves from global influences and the exciting intersections between the handmade and modern technology.
- MINIATURES explores the world of small objects and big ideas. Featuring miniaturist Mark Murphy, designer Alexander Girard, Cuban artist Leandro Gomez Quintero, woodblock printmaker and marionette maker Gustave Baumann.
- HOME visits craft artists whose environments are filled with meaning and metaphor. Featuring Biskakone Greg Johnson, North House Folk School, Syd Carpenter, Wharton Esherick, Sim Van der Ryn, and Helen Drutt English.
- INSPIRATION reveals the magic and influence of craft. Featuring Betye Saar, Alison Saar, Simon Rodia and Watts Towers, Diedrick Brackens, Ayumi Horie, Suzanne Thao, Mandora Young, Tousue Vang, Chef Yia Vang, and Mary Little.
- Celebrate the power of imagination and the child in all of us. Features piñata artists Roberto Benavidez and Lorena Robletto, puppeteer Schroeder Cherry, artist Calder Kamin, Noah's Ark at the Skirball Cultural Center and more.
- Exceptional artists forging metal magically transformed by fire. Forging is an ancient method where metal is heated and reheated, strengthened and hammered into sinuous extravagant curves.
- Industry explores the business of craft and how artists contribute to local and national economies.
- Documenting craft in the military and the power of the handmade to inspire, motivate, and heal.
- NEIGHBORS explores the people, history, and traditions of crafts from the U.S. and Mexico, noting how aesthetics cross over and back again in a living and ongoing cultural exchange. Featured artists include glass artist Jaime Guerrero; Mexican ceramic artists Magdalena Pedro Martínez and Carlomagno Pedro Martínez; world-renowned painter, muralist, community arts pioneer, and scholar Judy Baca; California ceramic artist Gerardo Monterrubio; and silver designers William Spratling, Carmen Tapia, Miguel Angel Ortíz Miranda, Cristina Romo, and Eduardo Herrera.
- Craft in America: Celebration explores the role craft plays in our winter holiday traditions, rituals, and festivities. Watch woodblock artist Yoshiko Yamamoto create Winter Cardinals, a special card for the holiday season.
- CRAFT IN AMERICA, the award-winning documentary series, is a journey to the artists, objects, techniques, and origins of American craft. Teachers highlights the renowned individuals who are equally committed to their own artistic visions and to sharing their skills and passion for craft with students and artists of all ages.
- BORDERS explores the relationships and influences that Mexican and American craft artists have on each other and our cultures. Artists and events featured include Ofelia Esparza, master altar-maker who teaches the meaning and history of the Day of the Dead celebration; master weaver Isaac Vásquez of Teotitlán del Valle, Mexico; American weaver Jim Bassler and potter Veralee Bassler; the colorful Guelaguetza parade in Los Angeles; and Chicago artist Kiff Slemmons who works with maestro Francisco Toledo at the Art Paper Workshop in Mexico. This episode confirms that art is a pathway for creativity and connections without borders.
- NEIGHBORS explores the people, history, and traditions of crafts from the U.S. and Mexico, noting how aesthetics cross over and back again in a living and ongoing cultural exchange. Featured artists include glass artist Jaime Guerrero; Mexican ceramic artists Magdalena Pedro Martínez and Carlomagno Pedro Martínez; world-renowned painter, muralist, community arts pioneer, and scholar Judy Baca; California ceramic artist Gerardo Monterrubio; and silver designers William Spratling, Carmen Tapia, Miguel Angel Ortíz Miranda, Cristina Romo, and Eduardo Herrera.
- Craft in America: California explores the diverse craft heritage, traditions, influences and innovations in the Golden State. Artists include Pomo basketweaver Corine Pearce, textile artist Deborah Cross, and silversmith Randy Stromsoe.
- Craft in America: Visionaries documents the ways in which artists and influencers create new methods and inspire new generations to envision the possibilities of craft. Visionaries include weaver and textile artist Kay Sekimachi.