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Title Craft in America [videorecording] / created by Carol Sauvion ; writer, Kyra Thompson ; a co-production of Craft in America, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; presented in association with KCET/Los Angeles.

Imprint [Arlington, VA] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2007]
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 3rd FL Science & Technology Library DVD's  TT23 .C73 2007    Available
Collation 1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Production Credits Directors of photography, Don Lenzer, Peter Pilafian, Allan Palmer ; editors, Yaffa Lerea, Leonard Feinstein, Lillian E. Benson ; music by Laura Karpmann ; narrator, Randy Oglesby.
Note Three-part program produced in 2006; originally broadcast on PBS in 2007.
Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Contents Episode 1. Memory / director, Nigel Noble -- Episode 2. Landscape / director, Daniel Seeger -- Episode 3. Community / director, Hilary Birmingham.
Note DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions; stereo., NTSC.
Memory: Sam Maloof (wood worker), Mary Jackson (basket weaver), Pat Courtney Gold (basket weaver), Garry Knox Bennett (furniture maker), Tom Joyce (blacksmith).
Landscape: Jan Yager (artist), David Gurney (ceramist), Timberline Lodge (Mount Hood, Oregon), Kit Carson (jeweler, sculptor), Mira Nakashima (furniture designer), Richard Notkin (artist).
Community: Mississippi Cultural Crossroads (Port Gibson, Mississippi), Penland School of Crafts, Sarah Jaeger (potter), Archie Bray Foundation, Pilchuk Glass School, Denise Wallace (jeweler), Sam Wallace (lapidary), Dona Look (artist), Ken Loeber (artist).
Summary "Craft in America is an exploration into the hearts and minds of artisans devoted to a diverse array of mediums -- from furniture making and basket weaving to pottery and metalsmithing. Each episode reveals that craft has earned itself a place within the realm of fine art"--Container.
Note Gift of the Estate of Norman Wilkinson.
Language Closed captioned.
Subject Handicraft -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Handicraft -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Artists -- United States.
Artisans -- United States.
Decoration and ornament -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Decoration and ornament -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Art -- Video recordings.
Video recordings.
DVD-Video discs.
Alt Author Sauvion, Carol, creator.
Thompson, Kyra, screenwriter.
Noble, Nigel, director.
Seeger, Dan, director.
Birmingham, Hilary, director.
Oglesby, Randy, narrator.
Maloof, Sam, artist.
Jackson, Mary, 1945- artist.
Gold, Pat Courtney, artist.
Bennett, Garry Knox, 1934- artist.
Joyce, Tom, 1956- artist.
Yager, Jan, 1951- artist.
Gurney, David, 1958- artist.
Carson, Kit, 1950- artist, artist.
Nakashima, Mira, artist.
Notkin, Richard, artist.
Jaeger, Sarah, artist.
Wallace, Denise, 1957- artist.
Wallace, Samuel, 1936- artist.
Look, Dona, artist.
Loeber, Ken, artist.
Lerea, Yaffa, film editor.
Lenzer, Don, director of photography.
Karpman, Laura, composer.
Craft in America, Inc.
Independent Television Service.
KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
PBS Home Video.
Alt Title Subtitle on disc label: Journey to the origins, artists and techniques of American craft
Craft in America (Television program)
Memory.
Landscape.
Community.
ISBN 0793693365
9780793693368
ISBN/ISSN 841887008372
Music # CRIA601