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Craft in America

Season 7 2015

  • 2015-11-21T02:00:00Z on PBS
  • 1h
  • 2h (2 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
Explore 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 show 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.

2 episodes

Season Premiere

2015-11-21T02:00:00Z

7x01 Music

Season Premiere

7x01 Music

  • 2015-11-21T02:00:00Z1h

A look at how fine handmade instruments are crafted, featuring the world renowned artists who play them including Jake Shimabukuro with his Kamaka ukulele, Joan Baez with her Martin guitar, Scotty Barnhart of the Count Basie Orchestra with his David Monette trumpet, Rhiannon Giddens with her James Hartel banjo, Tony Ellis with his Stelling Banjo, timpanist Joseph Pereira and mallet maker Jason Ginter.

Season Finale

2015-12-12T02:00:00Z

7x02 Celebration

Season Finale

7x02 Celebration

  • 2015-12-12T02:00:00Z1h

Discover the role craft plays in our winter holiday traditions, rituals, and festivities. Featuring lion dancers & float builders for San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Parade, ceramic artists in Michigan for the holidays at Pewabic (Detroit) and Motawi Tileworks (Ann Arbor), Kwanzaa celebrations with Chicago & Oakland artists, and Christmas card making in Tacoma with Yoshiko Yamamoto.

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