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  • INSPIRATION

    INSPIRATION reveals the magic and influence of craft. Featuring Diedrick Brackens, Ayumi Horie, Maddy Inez Leeser, Simon Rodia and Watts Towers, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Suzanne Thao, Tousue Vang, Chef Yia Vang, and Mandora Young. PBS premiere December 16, 2022 (check local listings)

    June 21, 2022

  • HOME

    HOME visits artists whose environments are filled with meaning and metaphor. Featuring Syd Carpenter, Helen Drutt, Wharton Esherick, Biskakone Greg Johnson, North House Folk School, and Sim Van der Ryn. PBS premiere December 16, 2022 (check local listings)

    June 21, 2022

  • JEWELRY

    JEWELRY explores the history, artistry, and impact of personal adornment. Now streaming on the PBS Video App, craftinamerica.org, pbs.org/craftinamerica.PBS broadcast premiere December 10 (check local listings)

    July 14, 2021

  • HARMONY

    HARMONY bridges the art forms of music and craft, celebrating the joy of music and the creation of handcrafted instruments. Now streaming on the PBS Video App, craftinamerica.org, pbs.org/craftinamerica.PBS broadcast premiere December 10 (check local listings)

    July 14, 2021

  • STORYTELLERS

    STORYTELLERS highlights artists who use narrative to communicate personal stories and universal truths. PBS premiere December 11, 2020. Featuring: sculptor George Rodriguez, whose oversized ceramic figures tell universal stories; the Art to Wear movement with gallerist and craft historian Julie Schafler Dale and textile artist Linda J. Mendelson, who draws inspiration from poetry and pushes the boundaries of wearable art; multimedia […]

    June 23, 2020

  • DEMOCRACY

    DEMOCRACY explores how craft is intertwined with our nation’s defining principles. PBS Broadcast premiere December 11, 2020. Featuring: Robert L. Lynch, President of Americans for the Arts, speaking about craft in U.S. history and the role of government in the arts; National Museum of African American History and Culture curator Joanne Hyppolite, Ph.D., speaking on the role of craft […]

    June 23, 2020

QUERY LOOP – ARTICLES

  • Christian Science Monitor, Piñata Exhibition, Craft in America
    June 27, 2022

    Party favor or art? Preserving the craft of the piñata.

    Henry Gass/The Christian Science Monitor June 24, 2022 Would you take a sledgehammer to the David? A flamethrower to the Mona Lisa? Ashredder to the latest Banksy? (Actually, scratch that last one.) Why then, some people are beginning to ask, would you want to pulverize a piñata?Alfonso Hernandez, for one, wants you to lower the […]

  • Craft in America, Ferne Jacobs: Building the Essentials
    May 31, 2022

    Saturday ‘Gayle on the Go!’, Saturday, May 28th, 2022

    KTLA by: Gayle Anderson May 28, 2022 Now, this is interesting! “This is Building The Essentials: Ferne Jacobs” an exhibition at the Craft in America Center, the first ever retrospective of Los Angeles artist Ferne Jacobs. According to the center Ferne Jacobs has been at the forefront of the revolution in fiber art. She has […]

  • Ferne Jacobs, The Round, 2007-8. Ferne Jacobs: Building the Essentials, Craft in America
    May 31, 2022

    Five pandemic-postponed art shows worth seeing right now

    LOS ANGELES TIMES by Christopher Knight May 11, 2022 In the mid-1970s, she set the loom aside to make labor-intensive textiles with her hands— think all weft, no warp — coiling thread into long, thin, finely wrought ropes that Jacobs used to build basketlike forms. (Log in to the gallery’s website for video demonstrations.) “Shadow […]

  • Craft in America, Ferne Jacobs: Building the Essentials
    April 30, 2022

    Art Matters with Edward Goldman

    By Edward Goldman April 15, 2022 Another challenging exhibition I had the pleasure of seeing recently was the one at Craft in America Center on W. Third Street east of La Cienega. This first ever retrospective of LA artist, Ferne Jacobs (b. 1942), covers 50 years of her career focused on fiber sculptures. “Reinventing and advancing […]

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