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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.

Hawaiian cordage and knotting and feather standards in 'Iolani Palace
The hogan on the Institute of American Indian Art campus
Institute of American Indian Arts Artist-in-Residence program
Episodes
Memory looks to the dynamic of cultural history and personal heritage in creating objects.
Landscape considers the influences on artists that translate into objects.
Community focuses on the connection artists have to their communities through craft.
Early craft techniques used by these artists are passed on in a continuum of creativity.
What inspires a career in craft? How does one learn a craft and make a living at it?
Many craft artists go beyond skill to personal and political expression in "Messages."
Explore the creativity and personal dynamics of craft artist families.
THREADS explores weaving, storytelling through quilts and textiles
Crossroads explores the intersections of craft, culture, and technology.
See the work of metalsmiths who create powerful art from jewelry to monumental sculpture.
Embrace winter traditions, all part of our American experience with the handmade
Industry: Handmade in the Creative Economy
Extras
Meet engravers and silversmiths at the silversmithing traditional cowboy arts symposium
IAIA student Whisper Crow Dog & IAIA alumni on Terran Last Gun on ledger art
Community at the Institute of American Indian Arts
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
The Institute of American Indian Arts archives consists of works/records from faculty, alumni
Institute of American Indian Art landscape and environment
Institute of American Indian Arts student on her work and exhibition
Three generations at the Institute of American Indian Arts
Lost wax casting silver horses and crab candleholders at Ubaldo Vitali's studio
Milliner Gigi Burris on working with M&S Schmalberg flowers
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