DEMOCRACY explores how craft is intertwined with our nation’s defining principles.

DEMOCRACY episode Craft in America

Premiered October 26, 2020
DEMOCRACY episode

Featuring Robert L. Lynch, President of Americans for the Arts; National Museum of African American History & Culture curator Joanne Hyppolite, Ph.D.; the Hearts of Our People exhibition at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum; calligrapher Sammy Little; Cheyenne Peace Chief Harvey Pratt; the Veterans History Project; visionary curator Eudorah Moore; and Berea College Student Craft

About the Program

Craft in America

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.

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