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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipI grew up with quilts.
My grandmother and my aunts quilted and I recall my aunts and mother talking about patches in those quilts from clothes that belong to them.
Those quilts held a lot of memories their childhood and their youth.
That's very special.
I founded the Women of Color Quilters Network and the objective has always been to find a place in the cannon of American quilt history for African American quilts.
We put those quilts in museums where viewers can see them.
One of the shows that I curated was on jazz and had each quilt artist interpret their favorite jazz music or their favorite jazz artist and I thought what a wonderful combination these two giants of artistic form coming from the African American community.
When I was going to school in the South we were not taught African-American history that was something you know we didn't know anything we were taught White history.
I want people to know that African Americans have been contributors and we are part of the very fabric of the country.
I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear I wanted to celebrate the election of the first Black president - So help you God - So help me God Congratulations Mr President.
so I put together an exhibition where the artists who were inspired by his election create a quilt about that and the intent was not just to celebrate the president but I wanted it to go deeper than that.
On whose shoulders does a Black man stand to get from the slave ship to the White House.
Many people and episodes in Black history propel that elevation.
I curated an exhibition for the Women of Color Quilters Network to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and that exhibition was a traveling exhibition as well.
Wendy Kendrick made a quilt that deals with child labor.
Child tobacco workers.
Carolyn Crump's piece dealt with mass incarceration.
One of the things the UN declaration calls for is every human being has the right to a trial.
[Crowd changing Black Lives Matter] After George Floyd was murdered I put out a call for quilts dealing with issues of racism and police brutality.
This man's death touched so many people but me, as a mother I was compelled to do this show.
It could have been my son.
People have to know how it feels to live in this Black skin in America and the things that uniquely happen to us because of our race.
I heard from people from around the world telling me, I know what racism feels like as a person of color living in France or living in England or Japan and I thought how amazing when you can take a piece of cloth and tell a story that's so gut-wrenchingly heartfelt.
I mean that is powerful.
As a young person, I remember watching the news and seeing the African American people during the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March.
They were beaten back by the state troopers and I distinctively remember one man on the ground being hit with a baton.
At the time, I did not know that it was John Lewis.
Years ago, I made a quilt about the Selma to Montgomery March.
I often said in my mind if I ever met John Lewis I would give him that quilt.
In 2014, I received an award in Washington and I went to see John Lewis.
He loved the quilt.
He cried when he got it and it was very moving and I had my family there and one of my grandchildren.
That was just one of the highlights of my life.
People have to know, scholars have to know 100 years from now or more, we were here participating in American quilt making.
Wood objects in Fleur, Judy and Jeff's collections
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Clip: S16 | 4m 14s | See more objects in Fleur Bresler's and Judith Chernoff and Jeffrey Bernstein's collections (4m 14s)
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Clip: S16 | 6m 29s | Learn more about Peter Shire's art and career. Bonus video from COLLECTORS episode (6m 29s)
See more of Erik and Martin Demaine's sculptures
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Clip: S16 | 4m 47s | Father-son team make unique curved-crease origami sculptures and incorporate it with glass (4m 47s)
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Clip: S16 | 2m 3s | Joseph & Sergio Youngblood Lugo on bear paw symbols in Santa Clara Pueblo pottery (2m 3s)
Quilt artist Karen Nyberg segment
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Clip: S16 | 6m 35s | Former NASA astronaut and quilter Karen Nyberg continues to create art inspired by space and science (6m 35s)
Potters Joseph & Sergio Youngblood Lugo segment
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Clip: S16 | 9m 5s | Santa Clara Pueblo potters Joseph & Sergio Youngblood Lugo use ancestral techniques in their work (9m 5s)
Objects in Sara Vance Waddell's collection
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Clip: S16 | 5m 15s | Sara Vance Waddell on how she became a collector and shows us pieces in her collection. (5m 15s)
Meet the artists in Cheech Marin's Chicano Art collection
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Clip: S16 | 8m 42s | Learn more about Jaime "Germs" Zacarias, Yolanda González, and Francisco Palomares (8m 42s)
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Clip: S16 | 1m 8s | Pianist Natasha Marin on living with Chicano Art (1m 8s)
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Clip: S16 | 6m 38s | Learn more about Carolyn Mazloomi and the Women of Color Quilters Network (6m 38s)
Joan Takayama-Ogawa's ceramic history
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Clip: S16 | 5m 4s | Artist Joan Takayama-Ogawa on her mentor, Ralph Bacerra and Joan's family history in ceramics (5m 4s)
Gloria & Sonny Kamm and Peter Shire segment
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Clip: S16 | 9m 32s | Meet teapot collectors Sonny and Gloria Kamm and artist Peter Shire in Los Angeles. (9m 32s)
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Clip: S16 | 7m 4s | Chicano artist Frank Romero on his career. Bonus video from COLLECTORS episode (7m 4s)
Fleur Bresler, Judith Chernoff, Jeffrey Bernstein, Norm Sartorius segment
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Clip: S16 | 13m 14s | Meet three collectors Fleur Bresler, Judith Chernoff & Jeffrey Bernstein and sculptor Norm Sartorius (13m 14s)
Feather artist Chris Maynard segment
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Clip: S16 | 7m 29s | Chris Maynard creates intricate art from bird feathers, inspired by his love of the natural world (7m 29s)
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Clip: S16 | 10m 56s | This father-son team takes inspiration from their research to create curved-crease paper sculptures (10m 56s)
Cynthia Lockhart on her career
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Clip: S16 | 6m 19s | Fiber artist Cynthia Lockhart on her careers and how her work ended up in the Renwick's collection (6m 19s)
Cheech Marin & Chicano Art segment
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Clip: S16 | 16m 51s | Comedian and collector Cheech Marin introduces us to his Chicano Art collection and artists (16m 51s)
Ceramic artist Joan Takayama-Ogawa segment
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Clip: S16 | 8m 38s | Ceramic artist Joan Takayama-Ogawa uses her work in clay to respond to the ongoing climate emergency (8m 38s)
Carolyn Mazloomi, Cynthia Lockhart, Sara Vance Waddell segment
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Clip: S16 | 10m 38s | Meet artist & collector Carolyn Mazloomi, artist Cynthia Lockhart, and collector Sara Vance Waddell (10m 38s)
Astronaut turns space photographs into quilts
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Clip: S16 | 2m 6s | Learn about retired NASA astronaut and quilter Karen Nyberg's space textiles (2m 6s)
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Clip: S16 | 10m 55s | Glass sculptor John Luebtow creates monumental glass and steel installations. (10m 55s)
Artist explores the climate crisis
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Clip: S16 | 2m 33s | Sustainability at Otis and Joan's climate change course (2m 33s)
American Craft Council marketplace segment
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Clip: S16 | 3m 47s | Meet dynamic young collectors and the artists they support at American Craft Made Baltimore (3m 47s)
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Preview: S16 Ep1 | 1m | SCIENCE investigates the unexpected intersection between art and the sciences (1m)
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Preview: S16 Ep2 | 58s | COLLECTORS reveals the essential role that craft appreciators play in the community. (58s)
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