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FAMILY episode

Season 3 Episode 2 | 52m 41s

Family explores the creative environments and personal dynamics of four families of craft artists and asks: Is talent inherited? What is it like to live in a household where objects are made by hand? Meet the featured artists (the Lees, Marionis, Moulthrops and Sorrells).

Aired: 10/16/11
Extras
Sustainability at Otis and Joan's climate change course
Father-son team make unique curved-crease origami sculptures and incorporate it with glass
Learn about retired NASA astronaut and quilter Karen Nyberg's space textiles
Joseph & Sergio Youngblood Lugo on bear paw symbols in Santa Clara Pueblo pottery
Artist Joan Takayama-Ogawa on her mentor, Ralph Bacerra and Joan's family history in ceramics
Fiber artist Cynthia Lockhart on her careers and how her work ended up in the Renwick's collection
Pianist Natasha Marin on living with Chicano Art
Learn more about Jaime "Germs" Zacarias, Yolanda González, and Francisco Palomares
See more objects in Fleur Bresler's and Judith Chernoff and Jeffrey Bernstein's collections
Sara Vance Waddell on how she became a collector and shows us pieces in her collection.
All
  • All
  • Craft in America Season 16
  • Craft in America Season 15
  • Craft in America Season 14
  • Craft in America Season 13
  • Craft in America Season 12
  • QUILTS and IDENTITY
  • CALIFORNIA and VISIONARIES
  • BORDERS and NEIGHBORS
  • TEACHERS and NATURE
  • MUSIC and CELEBRATION
  • SERVICE
  • FORGE and HOLIDAY and INDUSTRY
  • THREADS and CROSSROADS
  • MESSAGES and FAMILY
  • ORIGINS and PROCESS
  • MEMORY and LANDSCAPE and COMMUNITY
SCIENCE investigates the unexpected intersection between art and the sciences
COLLECTORS reveals the relationship between craft collectors & artists they support
PLAY celebrates the power of imagination and the child in all of us.
MINIATURES explores the world of small objects and big ideas
INSPIRATION reveals the magic and influence of craft
HOME visits artists whose environments are filled with meaning and metaphor
HARMONY bridges the art forms of music and craft
JEWELRY explores the history, artistry, and impact of personal adornment.
Artists who use narrative to communicate personal stories & universal truths.
DEMOCRACY explores how craft is intertwined with our nation’s defining principles.