Craft In America

Follow the evolution of American craft in its drive toward exploration, experimentation and innovation, a move toward new forms and creative solutions.

This program celebrates some of our most important traditions.

This program celebrates some of our most important traditions.

This program celebrates some of our most important traditions.

This program celebrates some of our most important traditions.

This program celebrates some of our most important traditions.

Follow young Chloe Darke as she begins her career as a silversmith at Old Newbury Crafters; Iraqi war veterans Tom Pullin and Jeremiah Holland as they turn to art as an antidote to the harsh realities of war; and Albert Paley, master metal sculptor, who uses knowledge from his 50-year career to build monumental artworks for New York City's Park Avenue.

This program celebrates some of our most important traditions.

This program celebrates some of our most important traditions.

This program celebrates some of our most important traditions.

The first episode takes a personal tour through craft's history in America.

The second episode examines the relationship of craft artists with their physical environment, which serves as a source of materials and inspiration.

The final episode focuses on the spiritual connection between artisans and their communities.

Discover the origins of American crafts through the artisans practicing these crafts today.

Discover places that teach craft at all levels, from DIY to advanced, plus individuals keeping the craft tradition alive and expanding on them.

This episode looks at the ways many craft artists go beyond skill to personal and political expression.

Is talent inherited? What's it like to live in a household where objects are made by hand? Former President Jimmy Carter shares stories of the late Ed Moulthrop, a fellow Georgian known as the father of modern woodturning and the father of a family of craft artists who are following in his footsteps.

Explore woven textiles and story quilts by artists Faith Ringgold of Harlem, Randall Darwall of Cape Cod, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood in California and Terese Agnew in Wisconsin.

Follow the evolution of American craft in its drive toward exploration, experimentation and innovation, a move toward new forms and creative solutions.

Follow young Chloe Darke as she begins her career as a silversmith at Old Newbury Crafters; Iraqi war veterans Tom Pullin and Jeremiah Holland as they turn to art as an antidote to the harsh realities of war; and Albert Paley, master metal sculptor, who uses knowledge from his 50-year career to build monumental artworks for New York City's Park Avenue.

This program celebrates some of our most important traditions.

"Industry" explores the business of the handmade, going into workshops where artists are crafting the future and making contributions to the local and national economies.

"Industry" explores the business of the handmade, going into workshops where artists are crafting the future and making contributions to the local and national economies.

Focus on the makers of finely crafted handmade instruments - guitar, ukulele, trumpet, banjo and timpani - and the renowned musicians who play them, including Joan Baez, Jake Shimabukuro, Rhiannon Giddens, Scotty Barnhart, Tony Ellis and Joseph Pereira.

This episode explores craft artists, objects and traditions of various holidays, featuring Lion Dancers and float builders of San Francisco's Chinese New Year Parade, ceramic artists in Detroit making festive pieces at Pewabic Pottery and Motawi Tileworks, Kwanzaa celebrations in Chicago and Oakland, and woodblock Christmas cards made by Yoshiko Yamamoto in Washington state.

Follow artists committed to passing on their skills and passion for craft to new generations.

NATURE celebrates the beauty, inspiration, and future of the American landscape.

Explore the relationships and influences Mexican and American craft artists have on each other and on our cultures.

Travel to and from the U.S. and Mexico to explore the people, history, traditions and crafts, noting how aesthetics cross from one country to another and back again in an organic and ongoing cultural exchange.

Explore craft practices definitively Californian, from Native Americans continuing ancient traditions, to contemporary artists expressing new iterations of the art of the handmade.

Meet artists, curators and collectors who envision limitless possibilities of craft and imagine new methods of achieving that vision.

Learn about contemporary quilters as we celebrate the role quilts have played in our country's story.

Artists explore issues of gender, race, culture and place, offering true expressions of their experiences in this world.

Meet artists who use narrative to communicate personal and universal truths.

Explore how craft is intertwined with our nation's defining principles.

PLAY explores the intersection of play and artistry, featuring Calder Kamin, Lorena Robletto, Roberto Benavidez, Schroeder Cherry, the Cotsen Children's Library, Chris Green, and the Skirball Cultural Center.

MINIATURES explores the world of tiny objects and the artists that make them, featuring the International Folk Art Market, Leandro Gomez Quintero, Mark Murphy, Alexander Girard, and Gustave Baumann.

PLAY explores the intersection of play and artistry, featuring Calder Kamin, Lorena Robletto, Roberto Benavidez, Schroeder Cherry, the Cotsen Children's Library, Chris Green, and the Skirball Cultural Center.

MINIATURES explores the world of tiny objects and the artists that make them, featuring the International Folk Art Market, Leandro Gomez Quintero, Mark Murphy, Alexander Girard, and Gustave Baumann.