The new television season presents Part Two of the PBS look at America’s unique approach to the field of crafts: Craft in America. There is an online virtual look at the field, featuring the areas of wood, clay, metal,glass, fiber and emerging artists. Streaming video at the PBS site will be available, as well as links to museum exhibits, artists websites and a preview of the season.
“There’s a rich heritage of craft in this country that reflects our spirit, history, and creative spark. Generation after generation, craft has been reinvented by talented artists who examine, interpret, and execute their ideas.”
An education section provides materials for educators and students as well as the audience and viewers.
Part One of Craft in America (2007) can be viewed and enjoyed in case you missed that season and episodes.
“Each of the episodes of Craft in America – Memory, Landscape and Community – has a group of three lesson plans written by arts educators. The Learn More links lead you to the specific show and the extensive guides designed for them, which you can read online for a sense of the material, and download in a printable pdf format. You’ll find they cover areas and issues that extend well beyond a how-to demonstration.”
As Gilbert Grosvenor, chairman of the National Geographic Society was quoted at the earlier season’s site said about American Craft:
“In craft we see the essence of the American Experience in all its amazing, wide-screen variety: from Eastern shipwrights to Navajo weavers; from those who work with needles to those who work with sledgehammers, from saddlemakers and banjo-builders to the potter who’s ‘always praying over the kiln’.”
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