CLAY

• Ceramic artist Nikki Lewis demonstrating at the potter’s wheel.
  
• Ceramic artist David Gurney discusses his influences and his techniques.
  
• Ceramic Artist Sarah Jaeger glazes a teapot.
  
• Artist Richard Notkin demonstrating slip casting for a teapot.
  
• Cary Esser demonstrates the technique of press molding at Archie Bray.
  
• Gurney's life style and work is influenced by Thoreau, Mexican culture, and more.
  
• Jaeger talks about the philosophy behind her work.
  
• Hepburn on what makes Cranbrook Academy "visionary."
  
• Hear Cliff Lee talk about finding clay, and changing his career from brain surgeon to potter. “I fell in love at the first touch of clay.”
  
• Sequoia Miller talks about Penland School of Crafts and its influence on his work.

WOOD

• Mike Johnson of Maloof Studio varnishes a rocker and talks about the process.
  
• John Zipprich talks about teaching woodworking to his children. As a woodcarver, he is involved in the ongoing Timberline Lodge restoration efforts.
  
• Timberline Lodge carver Masamichi Nitani explains how he designs his own tools.
  
• Mira Nakashima talks about the special edition Nakashima guitar that was made in his honor by Martin Guitar Company; it is the only guitar made to honor someone who was not a musician.
  
• John Ziprich in his studio at Timberline talks about the Timberline Lodge and his work there. He is one of the many craft artists who are maintaining and restoring the Lodge.
  
• Bennett on being an artist and a furniture maker.

METAL

• Lapidary Sam Wallace talking about selecting stones.
  
• Metalsmith Tom Joyce gives historical perspective on the notion of “craftmanship of necessity.”

GLASS

• William Morris demonstrates glassblowing at the Museum of Glass.
  
• Einar and Jamex de la Torre demonstrate hot sculpting at Pilchuck Glass School.
  
• Anne Gould Hauberg talks about the Studio Craft Movement and Pilchuck Glass School.
  
• William Morris, Flora Mace, Joey Kirkpatrick, Jeffery Mongrain, other artists and Chihuly craftsmen create a Chihuly basket at the Museum of Glass in Washington State.
  
• The de la Torre brothers speak about choosing a medium for self expression.
  
• Preston Singletary talks about his heritage, how native people can change, and Tlingit mythology.

FIBER

• Gustine Atlas of Mississippi Cultural Crossroads talks about how she quilts.
  
• Deborah Cross explains how she works.
  
• See Gold demonstrate the full twine turn, and discuss the technique.
  
• Friends of Timberline weaver in Silcox Hut, at Timberline Lodge, speaking about looms.
  
• Mary Jackson takes us on a tour of the baskets in her studio—many of which are traditional designs that have been passed down for 300 years.
  
• Randall Darwall on the machine vs. the handmade.
  
• Hystercine Rankin talks about what quilting means to her, and how she gets ideas for quilting patterns.
  
• Pat Courtney Gold describing the imagery on her baskets.
  
• Hear Mary Jackson explain how rice is separated from the chafe using a “Fanner” basket, and see her Unfinished Basket.
  
• Patty Crosby, director of the center, talks about the foundation of the Mississippi Cultural Crossroads and segregation in the community.
  
• The Bringles talk about Penland School of Crafts: its roots, foundation and current classes.
  
• The director of Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, Patty Crosby talks about Mrs. Rankin.
  
• Billie Ruth Sudduth talks about the mathematical component of her baskets, and explains the Fibonacci sequence.
  
• Dona Look takes us on a tour of her studio and work processes.

TV SERIES

• Watch a nine minute preview of Craft In America
  
• David Gurney talks about the difference between art and craft.
  
• Patty Crosby, director of Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, talks about Mrs. Rankin’s National Heritage Award.