This Artist Says Ambition Is a Trap
For Jennifer Owen, a Maui potter and ceramics teacher, a meaningful life has taken shape through clay. Not through scale. Not through constant growth. Not through the pressure to turn…
Art21: José de Jesús Rodríguez
This documentary short follows the artist in a moment of creative transition as he adapts the techniques of mosaic to his multilayered compositions, embracing more openness, gesture, and ambiguity in…
Craft in America: INDUSTRY
INDUSTRY features Gee’s Bend quilters Lucy Mingo & Mary Ann Pettway, quilter Joe Cunningham, boat builder Graham McKay & Lowell’s Boat Shop, artist Bethanne Knudson & Libby O'Bryan & The…
Craft in America: MESSAGES
Craft has the ability to entice viewers to consider topics that they might find difficult. By expressing their ideas through their work, artists add meaning to the objects they create.
The history behind your favourite William Morris designs
At a time when factories were reshaping society, Morris and his contemporaries believed mass production was damaging not only the lives of workers, but also the beauty and meaning of…
Craft in America: HOME
HOME visits craft artists whose environments are filled with meaning and metaphor
Craft in America: Science
Nature, space, algorithms, and more serve as inspiration for artists connecting their work to the world around them, from the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico to the computer science…
Jenny Holzer, Marquees, Times Square, 1993
“Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison.” While that might sound like an offbeat new marketing gambit by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, the aphorism,…
Koji Yamamura, the Japan side of independent animation
Koji Yamamura is an independent animator known for his short films such as Mount Head, A Country's Doctor or more recently Muybridge's Strings. After visiting his atelier, we will follow…