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Craft in America: Celebration

Travis Lum repairs a lion head for Chinese New Year celebrations.
Courtesy of Mark Markley

Fri. Dec. 11 at 10pm on WKAR-HD/23 | Examine the role craft plays in holiday customs, with a focus on winter observances and traditions.

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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