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COLLECTORS episode

Season 16 Episode 2 | 55m 41s

COLLECTORS reveals the essential role that craft appreciators play in the community, examining how collectors affirm and inspire the artists they support. The episode highlights collections from Chicano art to teapots to wooden spoons, looking at what drives collectors and how their support furthers artists at all stages of their careers.

Aired: 11/11/24 | Expires: 11/12/33
Extras
SOUTH explores craft artists who are building an inclusive and hopeful future.
NORTH investigates the impact of the northern landscape on craft artists
Fiber artist L'Merchie Frazier uses her art to tell the untold African American stories
Silversmith Ubaldo Vitali makes original work and restores historical silver
Artist Bisa Butler's quilt portraits based on Gordon Parks' photographs
Watch a preview of WEST, celebrating the continuum of heritage and handmade in the American west.
Watch a preview of EAST highlighting diverse expressions behind modern craft in the eastern region
IAIA student Whisper Crow Dog & IAIA alumni on Terran Last Gun on ledger art
Meet engravers and silversmiths at the silversmithing traditional cowboy arts symposium
Lost wax casting silver horses and crab candleholders at Ubaldo Vitali's studio
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