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Craft in America explores 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 film 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.

Fiber artist L'Merchie Frazier uses her art to tell the untold African American stories
The hogan on the Institute of American Indian Art campus
Institute of American Indian Arts Artist-in-Residence program
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WEST celebrates the continuum of heritage and the handmade in the American west.
EAST highlights diverse expressions behind modern craft in the eastern region of America.
COLLECTORS reveals the relationship between craft collectors & artists they support
SCIENCE investigates the unexpected intersection between art and the sciences
MINIATURES explores the world of small objects and big ideas
PLAY celebrates the power of imagination and the child in all of us.
HOME visits artists whose environments are filled with meaning and metaphor
INSPIRATION reveals the magic and influence of craft
JEWELRY explores the history, artistry, and impact of personal adornment.
HARMONY bridges the art forms of music and craft
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Silversmith Ubaldo Vitali makes original work and restores historical silver
Artist Bisa Butler's quilt portraits based on Gordon Parks' photographs
Watch a preview of WEST, celebrating the continuum of heritage and handmade in the American west.
Watch a preview of EAST highlighting diverse expressions behind modern craft in the eastern region
IAIA student Whisper Crow Dog & IAIA alumni on Terran Last Gun on ledger art
Meet engravers and silversmiths at the silversmithing traditional cowboy arts symposium
Lost wax casting silver horses and crab candleholders at Ubaldo Vitali's studio
Nina Zannieri, Executive Director of the Paul Revere House on Paul Revere's Midnight Ride.
Pop-up book artist Colette Fu on her books based on her travels to China
Bisa Butler's first artistic influences
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