(Los Angeles, CA) Emmy nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary series Craft in America, now in its 4th season exploring America’s rich craft history will air its 8th episode, Threads, on PBS stations nationwide, on May 11, 2012 at 9pm*.
Throughout history, man has sought ways to craft a domestic environment that is warm, comforting, and redolent of meaning and memories. Through interviews with nationally acclaimed artists working at the forefront of their media, artists devoting their lives and pushing boundaries of technique in the pursuit of their art, Threads looks at ways in which the needle arts have developed from the “functional” to the “meaningful”.
Threads explores work by Faith Ringgold, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and Terese Agnew - who through story-quilts and fiber collages go beyond pure technique to tell us fictions and truths that pierce our sensibilities – and Randall Darwall, whose luscious woven textiles affect us intellectually and emotionally through musical and visual rhythms and sensuous tactility.
The Craft in America series is the result of years of advocacy, research and filmmaking by Executive Producer Carol Sauvion. “Craft is once again proving its relevance as people return to the handmade,” says Sauvion.
Special advance screenings will be held in venues nationwide. Ancillary projects include museum exhibitions, the Random House book Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects, hours of online videos and interactive learning materials, and a free-to-the-public Craft in America Study Center located in Los Angeles, offering artist talks, exhibitions, workshops and a library of publications on the history and techniques of craft.
For more about Craft in America:
www.craftinamerica.org
pbs.org/craftinamerica
facebook.com/craftinamerica
youtube.com/user/craftinamerica2007
flickr.com/photos/craftinamerica
Please contact for art and interviews:
Carol Sauvion, Executive Producer: 310/659-9022, carolsauvion@craftinamerica.org
Beverly Feldman, Press liason: 310/659-9022, beverly@craftinamerica.org
*Check local listings
