Institute of American Indian Art student Whisper Crow Dog and IAIA graduate Terran Last Gun on ledger art. Bonus video from the WEST episode, PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Terran Last Gun.

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IAIA Artist-in-Residence and Chilkat weaver Laine Rinehart on how the Artist-in-Residence program has allowed him to pursue his craft. Bonus video from the WEST episode. PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

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Laurie Logan Brayshaw, Director of Sponsored Programs at IAIA on their land grant program. Bonus video from the WEST episode. PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

Archival courtesy of IAIA.

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We speak with three generations at the Institution of American Indian Arts. Linda Lomahaftewa is faculty emerita, her daughter Tatiana is a curator of collections at IAIA MoCNA, and Tatiana’s daughter, Amanda is a IAIA student. Bonus video from the WEST episode. PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

Archival courtesy of IAIA and IAIA Archives.

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Meskwaki artist and IAIA student Kayla Wanatee on her undergraduate exhibition and art. Bonus video from the WEST episode. PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

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Surrounded by nature in her studio in Ridgefield, Connecticut, Helena Hernmarck weaves wall-sized tapestries designed for modern, architectural environments. She takes inspiration from nature, her life and other artists, collaborating with artists from the United States to Sweden, where she grew up. Bonus video from the EAST episode, PBS premiere Dec 19, 2025

EAST explores the intersection of history, culture and contemporary craft in the eastern region of the US. As a nation of immigrants, these American stories, from a fabric flower factory to a silversmith to a potter and more, highlight the diverse expressions behind modern craft.

The featured artists and institutions include M&S Schmalberg Custom Fabric Flowers, Bisa Butler, Colette Fu, Roberto Lugo, Ubaldo Vitali, Paul Revere House and Helena Hernmarck.

Image courtesy of Helena Hernmarck / Kari Lonning photograph.

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Pop-up book artist Colette Fu on her tattooed lady book and her book on the long haired women in the terraced rice fields. Bonus video from the WEST episode, PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

Archival courtesy of Colette Fu, AerialCinematics / Pond5, Berloon / Pond5.

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Fiber artist Bisa Butler creates remarkable quilted portraits that tell stories of African American life, taking inspiration from historical photos and family history. Bonus video from EAST episode, PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

Images courtesy of ©The Gordon Parks Foundation, DogPhonics / Pond5, Bisa Butler / Mark Bunger photograph, LIFE_Picture_Collection / Pond5.

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Ubaldo Vitali is an American silversmith and conservator, hailing from a four-generation Italian lineage of metalworkers. Having honed his craft from childhood in family workshops and through formal studies at prestigious Italian art academies, Vitali established his own workshop in New Jersey, in 1967. He works with his assistant, Amrit Tamrakar. He is celebrated for his masterful blend of traditional silversmithing techniques with innovative design. Vitali creates original pieces and serves as a highly sought-after conservator for historical silver, restoring invaluable artifacts for institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ubaldo was even commissioned to restore a teapot that was made by Paul Revere. His unparalleled skill and dedication to the art form were recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship in 2011, cementing his legacy as a leading figure in contemporary metalwork. Bonus video from the EAST episode, PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

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In Philadelphia, Colette Fu opens a giant pop-up book, revealing an intricate scene made from her photographs and cut paper. As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, the pop-up books and sculptures she crafts are inspired by Chinese American history and her travels in Yunnan Province, China, where her mother is from. Bonus video from the EAST episode, PBS premiere Dec 19, 2025.

EAST explores the intersection of history, culture and contemporary craft in the eastern region of the US. As a nation of immigrants, these American stories, from a fabric flower factory to a silversmith to a potter and more, highlight the diverse expressions behind modern craft.

The featured artists and institutions include M&S Schmalberg Custom Fabric Flowers, Bisa Butler, Colette Fu, Roberto Lugo, Ubaldo Vitali, Paul Revere House and Helena Hernmarck.

Images courtesy of Colette Fu.

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Roberto Lugo welcomes us to his neighborhood of Kensington in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He works as a potter, taking deep inspiration from his community, graffiti and Ancient Greek pottery, and values sharing his art with the public by throwing pots in parks and creating public works of art. Segment from the EAST episode, PBS premiere Dec 19, 2025.

EAST explores the intersection of history, culture and contemporary craft in the eastern region of the US. As a nation of immigrants, these American stories, from a fabric flower factory to a silversmith to a potter and more, highlight the diverse expressions behind modern craft.

The featured artists and institutions include M&S Schmalberg Custom Fabric Flowers, Bisa Butler, Colette Fu, Roberto Lugo, Ubaldo Vitali, Paul Revere House and Helena Hernmarck.

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Fiber artist Bisa Butler creates remarkable quilted portraits that tell stories of African American life, taking inspiration from historical photos and family history. Bonus video from the EAST episode, PBS premiere Dec 19, 2025.

EAST explores the intersection of history, culture and contemporary craft in the eastern region of the US. As a nation of immigrants, these American stories, from a fabric flower factory to a silversmith to a potter and more, highlight the diverse expressions behind modern craft.

The featured artists and institutions include M&S Schmalberg Custom Fabric Flowers, Bisa Butler, Colette Fu, Roberto Lugo, Ubaldo Vitali, Paul Revere House and Helena Hernmarck.

Images courtesy of Courier News-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images, Robert L. Bender Papers and Courier News Photograph Archive, Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, New Jersey, Bisa Butler, and Estate of Jeff Donaldson and Kravets Wehby Gallery.

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Archival images and video courtesy of Classic Image / Alamy, GL Archive / Alamy, Historic Collection / Alamy, Science History Images / Alamy, Zip Lexing / Alamy, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, City of Boston / Produced and Directed by Rashin Fahendej, L’Merchie Frazier, Carolyn Mazloomi, bornreadyfilms / Pond5, Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks / University of California, Berkeley Library, Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection / UCLA Library Special Collections.

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M&S Schmalberg Custom Fabric Flowers is a storied, fourth-generation family business that has been handcrafting exquisite fabric flowers in New York City’s Garment District since 1916. As the last remaining factory of its kind in America, they uphold a century-old tradition, utilizing vintage tools and techniques to create custom floral embellishments for high fashion houses, bridal designers, milliners, costume designers for film and Broadway, and stylists worldwide. Their enduring legacy, rooted in the resilience of generations, including a Holocaust survivor, is built on unparalleled craftsmanship and a commitment to producing bespoke, high-quality artificial flowers that have graced runways, red carpets, and significant cultural productions. Bonus video from EAST episode, PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

Images courtesy of Gigi Burris O’Hara.

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Culture bearer Marques Hanalei Marzan talks about the knotting and cordage practices that were used for nets. Feather artist Kawika Lum-Nelmida and Zita Cup Choy, ‘Iolani Palace historian, talks about the kahili, feather standards in the King’s and Queen’s Bedroom. Bonus video from the WEST episode, PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

Images courtesy of Hawaii State Archives, PP-96-11-004, BlackBoxGuild / Pond5.

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Meet rawhide braider Jeff Minor and master engravers and silversmiths at the silversmithing traditional cowboy arts symposium organized by the Idaho Commission on the Arts. Bonus video from the WEST episode, PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

Archival courtesy of William Mullins / Alamy, Trhett / Pond5, Idaho Commission on the Arts, Ernie Marsh, Diane Scalese, David Alderson, Wyatt Cook, hdnaturefootage / Pond5, Traditional Cowboy Arts Association, Scott Hardy / Leslie Hardy photograph, Cary Schwarz, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Wilson Capron / Caleb Royer photograph.

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Artist Daniel McCoy Jr and artist/faculty emerita Linda Lomahaftewa on the IAIA community. Bonus video from the WEST episode, PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

Images courtesy of IAIA Archives, Santa Fe, NM, Institute of American Indian Arts, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, Hecho a Mano gallery & Daniel McCoy Jr.

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The 33rd Rakow Commission was awarded to Rui Sasaki, a Japanese artist and educator who created Liquid Sunshine/I am a Pluviophile. Sasaki uses an array of materials, including resin, ice, light, performance, and especially glass, to highlight subtle aspects of everyday life.

As an itinerant artist, pursuing opportunities around the globe, she has often created work that deals with the slipperiness of the concept of “home” and with the idea of creating spaces of belonging.

Her more recent works address the weather, drawing viewers’ attention to the subtle qualities of sunshine and rain and the emotional states they provoke.

The Corning Museum of Glass has named Brooklyn-based artist Leo Tecosky (b. 1981, USA) the recipient of the 2021 Rakow Commission. Tecosky—an artist who blends hip hop, graffiti, and glass—has made his most ambitious work to date, which is now on view in the Contemporary Art + Design Galleries.

Tecosky is drawn to art forms that blend and layer a range of influences. In graffiti and hip hop, both of which played important roles in his upbringing, Tecosky found forms that allow for and encourage artists to bring together samples and styles from a breadth of different traditions. Using this same approach, his own work brings the building blocks of hip hop—the DJing, MCing, and breakdancing—and the aesthetics of graffiti—the looping letters, arrows, and stars—into the glass shop. The result are highly crafted works that radiate power, intensity, and cool grace.

Fiber Artist Talk by Barbara Danzi in Los Angeles June 28, 2026 at TAG Gallery. Discussing her exhibit of contemporary abstract quilts composed of seemingly hand drawn lines, some traditional quilt history including the American Bicentennial, some whimsical lines of poetry, and acknowledgement of fiber art and quilting communities.

What’s My Line? explores the personality of lines through fabric and stitching. Lines can evoke feelings of power or serenity, a sense of direction, rhythm or abundance. I create the lines by hand cutting solid-colored fabric with gestural arm movements. I stitch the fabric pieces together using my sewing machine, creating seam lines that preserve the look of hand-drawn lines. I then add quilting stitches, either in straight lines or by drawing leaves or other designs which add layers of meaning to each composition. For this exhibit I created whimsical compositions drawn from the cultural and linguistic associations of lines. For nature lovers there is tree line, ridge line, coastline, shoreline. City dwellers will appreciate skyline, powerline, pipeline, trainline, fenceline and lane line. Rounding out the collection are line dance, hemline, line of scrimmage, headline, and since this is LA, “forgot my lines.”

Together, the works consider line as both a visual structure and a cultural metaphor. Quilts are available for sale. Additional quilt photos can be viewed on my website https://barbaradanzi.com

The Corning Museum of Glass has named Boston and Indian -based artist Anjali Srinivasan (b. 1978, India) the recipient of the 2020 Rakow Commission. Anjali Srinivasan’s work draws on her research of sheesh mahal, or mirror palaces, awe-inspiring Mughal-era constructions of glittering glass mosaics. Hear the ways she’s giving this centuries-old craft new life in her work for the Museum.

साँस {Saans} the eyes of the skin سانس is a glittering, interactive mirrored wall that senses viewers and rewards their attention by slowly beginning to breathe back at them.

Anjali’s work is now on view in the Contemporary Art + Design Galleries.

The Corning Museum of Glass selected mixed-media artist Te Rongo Kirkwood (b. 1973, Auckland, New Zealand) as the recipient of the 38th Rakow Commission. The Museum’s Rakow Commission, in its 38th year, supports the creation of a new work in glass by an artist who pushes the boundaries of the material and who is not yet represented in CMoG’s permanent collection.

The Seer, the Seen, the Seeing is a multi-dimensional installation that represents the artist’s most personal series in glass to date. Drawing from Māori weaving practices, Kirkwood has created a kākahu (cloak) made of glass and woven fibers, alongside a Puru hau (sacred ritual vessel) in blown glass.

These two works are central symbolism to a film featuring Kirkwood and her father, set against the backdrop of their ancestral lands at Piha beach on New Zealand’s west coast. The cloak worn by Kirkwood’s father embodies a connection to past, present, and future generations. In the symbolic act of passing it to his daughter, he offers not only the gift of ancestral wisdom and love but also unresolved intergenerational pain inviting her to integrate what she can in her lifetime as part of the ongoing cycle of evolution and transformation.

Meet Catie Newell, one of the artists who has made The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass her creative home.

The Studio’s Artist-in-Residence program brings artists from around the world to Corning, NY, giving them uninterrupted time to explore new techniques or push the boundaries of their practice with support from the immense resources of the world’s leading glass museum.

Meet Raghvi Bhatia, one of the artists who has made The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass her creative home.

The Studio’s Artist-in-Residence program brings artists from around the world to Corning, NY, giving them uninterrupted time to explore new techniques or push the boundaries of their practice with support from the immense resources of the world’s leading glass museum.