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Craft in America explores the vitality, history and significance of the craft movement in the United States and its impact on our nation's rich cultural heritage. Capturing the beauty, creativity and originality of craftsmanship, the film highlights artists and explores the inter-relationship of what they do, how they do it and why they have chosen a life of creating art.

Learn more about Peter Shire's art and career. Bonus video from COLLECTORS episode
SCIENCE investigates the unexpected intersection between art and the sciences
Learn about retired NASA astronaut and quilter Karen Nyberg's space textiles
Episodes
Memory looks to the dynamic of cultural history and personal heritage in creating objects.
Landscape considers the influences on artists that translate into objects.
Community focuses on the connection artists have to their communities through craft.
Early craft techniques used by these artists are passed on in a continuum of creativity.
What inspires a career in craft? How does one learn a craft and make a living at it?
Many craft artists go beyond skill to personal and political expression in "Messages."
Explore the creativity and personal dynamics of craft artist families.
THREADS explores weaving, storytelling through quilts and textiles
Crossroads explores the intersections of craft, culture, and technology.
See the work of metalsmiths who create powerful art from jewelry to monumental sculpture.
Embrace winter traditions, all part of our American experience with the handmade
Industry: Handmade in the Creative Economy
Extras
Learn more about Jaime "Germs" Zacarias, Yolanda González, and Francisco Palomares
See more objects in Fleur Bresler's and Judith Chernoff and Jeffrey Bernstein's collections
Sara Vance Waddell on how she became a collector and shows us pieces in her collection.
Learn more about Carolyn Mazloomi and the Women of Color Quilters Network
Chicano artist Frank Romero on his career. Bonus video from COLLECTORS episode
Sustainability at Otis and Joan's climate change course
Father-son team make unique curved-crease origami sculptures and incorporate it with glass
Joseph & Sergio Youngblood Lugo on bear paw symbols in Santa Clara Pueblo pottery
Artist Joan Takayama-Ogawa on her mentor, Ralph Bacerra and Joan's family history in ceramics
Fiber artist Cynthia Lockhart on her careers and how her work ended up in the Renwick's collection
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