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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"--Container.

Table of Contents:

• Episode 1. Memory / director, Nigel Nobel
• Episode 2. Landscape / director, Dan Seeger
• Episode 3. Community / director, Hilary Birmingham.

Contributors:

Sauvion, Carol

Thompson, Kyra

Oglesby, Randy

Maloof, Sam

Jackson, Mary, basket weaver

Gold, Pat Courtney

Bennett, Garry Knox, 1934-

Joyce, Tom

Yager, Jan, 1951-

Gurney, David

Carson, Kit, 1950-

Nakashima, Mira

Notkin, Richard

Jaeger, Sarah

Wallace, Denise

Wallace, Sam

Look, Dona

Loeber, Ken

Lerea, Yaffa

Lenzer, Don

Karpmann, Laura

Nobel, Nigel

Seeger, Dan

Birmingham, Hilary

Crafts in America, Inc.

Independent Television Service

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)

PBS Home Video

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Closed captioned.
In English.

Included Works:

Memory

Landscape

Community

Related Works:

Craft in America (Television program)

Subjects:

Handicraft — United States — History — 20th century

Handicraft — United States — History — 21st century

Artists — United States

Artisans — United States

Decoration and ornament — United States — History — 20th century

Decoration and ornament — United States — History — 21st century

1900-2099

Artists

Artisans

Decoration and ornament

Handicraft

United States

Genres:

Motion pictures

Documentary television programs

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

History

System Details:

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions; stereo., NTSC.

Performers:

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).

Production Credits:

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

General Notes:

Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Gift: c.2, University of North Texas. College of Visual Arts and Design, October 2012.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

CRA DVD

ISBNs:

0793693365
9780793693368

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 841887008372
Publisher Number, PBS Home Video: CRIA601

OCLC Numbers:

140341822