Craft in America: Borders & Neighbors

Starring: Jaime Guerrero, Magdalena Pedro Martinez, Carlomagno Pedro Martinez, et al.

CRAFT IN AMERICA, the Peabody Award-winning documentary series, is an inspirational journey to the artists, objects, techniques, and origins of American craft. BORDERS and NEIGHBORS explore the connections between Mexico and the United States through craft.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 841887035248
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Publisher: PBS
• Director: n/a
• Starring: Jaime Guerrero, Magdalena Pedro Martinez, Carlomagno Pedro Martinez, Judy Baca, Gerardo Monterrubio, William Spratling, Carmen Tapia, Miguel Angel Ortiz Miranda, Cristina Romo, Eduardo Herrera
• Runtime: 2 hours
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: ntsc
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 7.5" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

A good eclectic collection of artists.

It is the time that the artist excels past the mechanics to an expression that makes you want to try the different arts for yourself. Every once in a while, there is a clinker. But for the most part, you will want to re-watch. It helps that I have already dabbled in a lot of the arts, so I can tell that whoever chose the individual artists excelled in the choice. The presentation is in episodes like Memory, Landscape, and Community. I am not sure of the significance. I just watched from one end of the DVD to the next. Two good points about this presentation. One is not in sound bite form, where all the artists say one thing, and then all the artists say another. Second, it tells a little history of how the artist came to a point in life where he/she decides to be an artist instead of a drone in society. I know that the series cannot be everything for everybody; however, I would have liked them to have slowed down to show more of the mechanical details of each craft.