Artists Create Objects of Beauty and Function Through Crafts

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Published November 6, 2007 at 8:54 AM PST

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

Craft In America is a traveling showcase of handmade objects that include furniture, glass, ceramics and textiles from 200 years of American craft tradition. The exhibit is showing at the Mingei Inter

Originally aired Nov. 6, 2007.

Tom Fudge: The craft of making both art objects and functional tools and clothing is something that used to be much more common in the United States. The thing that killed craft, in many communities, was the industrial revolution. But mass production of products hasn't stamped out the desire to build and create among all people. In fact, the arts and crafts movement of the early 20th century was a reaction against mass production – An attempt to keep the skills of craft making alive among common people.

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Craft In America , a traveling exhibit of close to 200 works of handmade crafts, is on display at the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park now through Jan. 20, 2008.

Guest

Carol Sauvion, executive director of Craft in America. Sauvion is a potter and owner of Freehand Gallery in Los Angeles.

(Photo: Garry Knox Bennett, GR #13, M. Lee Fatherree )

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(Photo: Carol Eckert, Tale of Three Ravens)

(Photo: Carl C. Jennings, Gate, Forrest L. Merrill collection, M. Lee Fatheree)

(Photo: Nettie Jackson, Coiled Ceder Root Berry Basket, Doug Hill )