Craft in America : season 1

Resource Information

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Label

Craft in America : season 1

Title remainder

season 1

Contributor

• Joyce, Tom
• Karpman, Laura
• Lenzer, Don
• Lerea, Yaffa
• Loeber, Ken
• Look, Dona
• Maloof, Sam
• Nakashima, Mira
• Nobel, Nigel
• Notkin, Richard
• Oglesby, Randy
• Sauvion, Carol
• Seeger, Dan
• Thompson, Kyra
• Wallace, Denise
• Yager, Jan, 1951-
• trueWallace, Sam
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Craft in America, Inc
• Independent Television Service
• KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
• PBS Home Video
• Bennett, Garry Knox, 1934-
• Birmingham, Hilary
• Carson, Kit, 1950-
• Gold, Pat Courtney
• Gurney, David
• Jackson, Mary, 1945-
• Jaeger, Sarah

Subject

• Documentary television programs
• Handicraft -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Handicraft -- United States -- History -- 21st century
• Artists -- United States
• Decoration and ornament -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Decoration and ornament -- United States -- History -- 21st century
• Artisans -- United States
• Documentary television programs

Genre

• Documentary television programs

Language

eng

Summary

"Craft in America is an exploration into the hearts and minds of artisans devoted to a diverse array of mediums -- from furniture making and basket weaving to pottery and metalsmithing. Each episode reveals that craft has earned itself a place within the realm of fine art"

Related

• Memory
• Community
• Landscape

Member of

• PBS

Cataloging source

WW9

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Don Lenzer ; editor, Yaffa Lerea ; music by Laura Karpmann

Language note

Closed captioned

LC call number

TT23

LC item number

.C73 2007

PerformerNote

• Narrator, Randy Oglesby
• Memory: Sam Maloof (wood worker), Mary Jackson (basket weaver), Pat Courtney Gold (basket weaver), Garry Knox Bennett (furniture maker), Tom Joyce (blacksmith)
• Landscape: Jan Yager (artist), David Gurney (ceramist), Timberline Lodge (Mount Hood, Oregon), Kit Carson (jeweler, sculptor), Mira Nakashima (furniture designer), Richard Notkin (artist)
• Community: Mississippi Cultural Crossroads (Port Gibson, Mississippi), Penland School of Crafts, Sarah Jaeger (potter), Archie Bray Foundation, Pilchuk Glass School, Denise Wallace (jeweler), Sam Wallace (lapidary), Dona Look (artist), Ken Loeber (artist)

Runtime

180

Series statement

PBS

Technique

live action