Craft in America

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.

Quilts hold history, share culture, and tell stories that would otherwise not be told. The Quilts episode features contemporary masters of this powerful art form.

How do we define ourselves? In Identity, artists explore issues of gender, race, culture and place, offering true expressions of their experience in this world.

Storytellers highlights artists who use narrative to communicate personal and universal truths, creating a uniquely powerful expression of our human experience. Meet one of our nation’s most important multidisciplinary artists Nicholas Galanin in Alaska, then explore the Art to Wear movement with gallerist and craft historian Julie Schafler Dale at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In the galleries and halls of our treasured institutions; in the hands of Native American, African American, and Veteran artists; from Appalachia to the Rio Grande Valley; Democracy explores how craft is intertwined with our nation’s defining principles. Hear from Robert L. Lynch, President of Americans for the Arts, who speaks to the role of government in the arts.