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Why Quilts Matter: 07: Empowering Women

Why Quilts Matter: 07: Empowering Women

Why Quilts Matter: 07: Empowering Women

Unique among objects, quilts are both lowly “women’s work” and great art. They are something made from nothing; they are both nurturing and inspiring. They can communicate both…

Why Quilts Matter: 06: How Quilts have been Viewed and Collected

Why Quilts Matter: 06: How Quilts have been Viewed and Collected

Why Quilts Matter: 06: How Quilts have been Viewed and Collected

Part 6 traces institutional attitudes toward quilts as objects, rationales for their selection, and the public response to their exhibition.

Why Quilts Matter: 02: Bringing History Alive

Why Quilts Matter: 02: Bringing History Alive

Why Quilts Matter: 02: Bringing History Alive

The quilt’s unique ability to preserve, not only our own family histories, but the history of America

Why Quilts Matter: 04: What is Art?

Why Quilts Matter: 04: What is Art?

Why Quilts Matter: 04: What is Art?

The quilt is the perfect test case for a dozen theories about what makes art. The art vs. craft debate

Why Quilts Matter: 01: Antique and Contemporary

Why Quilts Matter: 01: Antique and Contemporary

Why Quilts Matter: 01: Antique and Contemporary

Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics is a nine-part documentary series that will change the way you think about quilts. Uncover the unsuspected size and depth of quilt…

Elizabeth James Perry Wampanoag Traditional Artist

Elizabeth James Perry Wampanoag Traditional Artist

Elizabeth James Perry Wampanoag Traditional Artist

Elizabeth James-Perry's artwork is intimately tied to her Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal heritage. Her wampum belts are made using indigenous materials -- locally harvested, handspun…

Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer

Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer

Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer

Short film about Jesse Marsolais who works in old ways – traditional methods of letterpress printing and letter carving in stone and wood – to meet customers’ needs one letter at…

Harold A. Burnham, Shipwright

Harold A. Burnham, Shipwright

Harold A. Burnham, Shipwright

Short film featuring master wooden boat builder Harold A. Burnham. Shot both in the Burnham ship yard and on the water, the film touches on shipbuilding in Essex, the Burnham…

Ott Blair

Demonstration of and commentary on the mountain craft of building wooden farm sleds by Ott Blair, a native of Heaton, North Carolina. Discussion includes first selling sled and…

Pearl Fisher

The freshwater pearl industry once flourished along Indiana's inland waterways. The Wabash, flowing south from Lafayette to join the Ohio at Mt. Vernon, bustled with the shallow…

Albert Collins

Portrait of Albert "Hap" Collins of South Blue Hill, Maine. Hap Collins was a poet, painter, fiddler, lobster fisherman, storyteller, and craftsman.

Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner

Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner

Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner

In 1979 Keir Cline shot footage at the Tenth Annual National Hollerin’ Contest in Spivey’s Corner, a small crossroads community in southeastern North Carolina. The festival had…

Grand Generation

Grand Generation

Grand Generation

A portrait of six older Americans, each with their roots in a unique cultural heritage and each with a powerful perspective on the nature of aging.

Alex Stewart: Cooper

Alex Stewart: Cooper

Alex Stewart: Cooper

A 1973 film of Alex Stewart, a mountain craftsman from near Sneedville, Tennessee, constructing a churn. Film includes discussion of the use of non-powered tools and skills handed…

Appalachian Journey

Appalachian Journey

Appalachian Journey

Alan Lomax travels through the Southern Appalachians investigating the songs, dances, and religious rituals of the descendents of the Scotch-Irish frontiers people who have made…

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