CRAFT IN AMERICA: Celebration

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CRAFT IN AMERICA, the Peabody Award-winning PBS series, marks the holiday season with an all new hour titled "Celebration." Throughout its seven seasons, CRAFT IN AMERICA has highlighted the finest examples of American artistry. This hour adds another important chapter to that anthology by examining the role craft plays in our holiday customs, with a focus on our winter observances and the traditions that are handed down from one generation to another as well as new rituals that define the season.

Explore the many ways Americans celebrate time-honored traditions, featuring lion dancers and float builders for San Francisco’s acclaimed Chinese New Year Parade, artists in Michigan making ceramics for the holidays at Pewabic (Detroit) and Motawi Tileworks (Ann Arbor), Kwanzaa celebrations with artists in Chicago and Oakland, and Christmas card-making in Tacoma, Washington, with woodblock print artist Yoshiko Yamamoto.

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A lion head for Chinese New Year.

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Travis Lum repairs a lion head for Chinese New Year celebrations.

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Jamie Hickey sponges and cleans up the slip cast Snowdrop Vase (Pewabic).

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Table setting with Pewabic’s Snowdrop Vases and work made by Pewabic artisans.

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A Kwanzaa table.

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Seneferu and his wife, Karen, address an elder during the Kwanzaa ceremony.

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Yoshiko Yamamoto at the printing press.

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Yumei Hou carves a sheep out of styrofoam for a Chinese New Year float.

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"Winter Cardinals," printed card by Yoshiko Yamamoto.

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"Snowman," printed card by Yoshiko Yamamoto.

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Babatunde Graves, who makes kinaras, the candleholders for Kwanzaa celebrations.

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