Craft in America: Messages, looks at the ways many craft artists go beyond skill to personal and political expression. They use craft to tell a story, prove a point, or bring attention to issues. Often their work is passionate and provocative. The artists selected for Messages express many different interests and points of view, but they have one thing in common: their skill and creativity are of the highest level.
Wisconsin glass artist Beth Lipman explores the symbolism of 17th century still life paintings to express the fragility that exists in a world of excess. New Mexico santero Charles M. Carrillo uses authentic materials to combine historic religious subject matter with contemporary culture. Baltimore bead artist Joyce J. Scott learned quilting and beading from her mother and draws from references as wide-ranging as Africa and comic books to focus on issues such as race and stereotyping. New Orleans jewelry artist and sculptor Thomas Mann is famous for his “Techno-Romantic” designs. He created Storm Cycle, a series of wall panels that document the untold stories in his beloved city after Hurricane Katrina.
most
people would never have thought she would check with the surveying and
engineering company that did all the surveying and engineering for the
project. That’s almost a hundred years ago. However, that’s exactly
what Senior Producer Linda Corley of WPBT2 did. Surprisingly,
she found the company is still in business and is today the oldest
company headquartered in the city of Miami –111 years to be exact. Here
is a short version of the story that airs in south Florida in late May
and nationally in the fall.
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