Watch a 1 minute preview of the INSPIRATION episode. INSPIRATION reveals the magic and influence of craft. Featuring the Saar family (Betye Saar, Alison Saar, and Maddy Leeser), Simon Rodia and Watts Towers, Diedrick Brackens, Ayumi Horie, Suzanne Thao, Mandora Young, Tousue Vang, Chef Yia Vang, and Mary Little. Streaming in Nov 2022 and on PBS broadcast Dec 16, 2022

HOME visits artists whose environments are filled with meaning and metaphor. Featuring Syd Carpenter, Helen Drutt, Wharton Esherick, Biskakone Greg Johnson, North House Folk School, and Sim Van der Ryn.

Greg Johnson is an Ojibwe tribal member, cultural practitioner, and educator committed to learning and teaching the traditional methods and crafts of the Ojibwe people. He has mastered the crafts of cedar bark mat weaving, beadwork, weaving winnowing baskets, and winter bark basket making, moccasin sewing, and canoe building. Segment from the HOME episode

Ayumi Horie is a studio potter living and working in Portland, Maine. Her work often includes drawings of animals or other images that seek to provoke an emotional response, explore individual vulnerability, and deepen the connection between people and their communities. Segment from the INSPIRATION episode

Meet the Saar family of artists, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, and Maddy Leeser, inspired by Simon Rodia's Watts Towers. Through her practice, Alison Saar explores a multitude of themes, including gender, race, and spirituality from personal, societal, and historical perspectives, a deep understanding of materiality and craft, and her work is often rooted in folk art traditions.

Weaver Diedrick Brackens is best known for his woven tapestries that explore themes of African American and queer identity, American history, as well as his own lived experience. Influenced by African and African American literature, poetry, and folklore, Brackens imbues his weavings with a fantastical spirit, while poignantly bridging past and present. Segment from the INSPIRATION episode

Sculptor Syd Carpenter is an artist and professor. Her Groundbreaking Farm Series, clay sculptures that mix nature and African American culture, reflect the history of African American land ownership in the South after the Civil War and going forward to today. Segment from the HOME episode

Meet Hmong Paj Ntaub artists Suzanne Thao and Mandora Young, Hmong artist Tousue Vang, and Hmong Chef Yia Vang. Learn how the ancient practice of Paj Ntaub embroidery is an artistic and economic foundation for the Hmong people. Segment from the INSPIRATION episode

Artist Alison Saar on whittling. Bonus video from INSPIRATION episode. PBS broadcast premiere Dec 16, 2022 (check local listings)

Ojibwe artist Biskakone Greg Johnson on the waganogan his community built based on an old photograph. Bonus video from HOME episode. Archival image courtesy of Wisconsin Historical Society, WHI-(23743).

Chef Yia Vang on what it means to be Hmong. Bonus video from the INSPIRATION episode. PBS broadcast premiere Dec 16, 2022 (check local listings)

Chef Yia Vang on Hmong Village. Bonus video from the INSPIRATION episode. PBS broadcast premiere Dec 16, 2022 (check local listings)

Ceramic artist Syd Carpenter on her Mother Pins series. Bonus video from the HOME episode. PBS broadcast premiere Dec 16, 2022 (check local listings)

Jim Campe on the Outlaw Builder's structures. Bonus video from the HOME episode. PBS premiere Dec 16, 2022 (check local listings)

Weaver Diedrick Brackens on his Baby Blanket series. Bonus video from the INSPIRATION episode. PBS broadcast premiere Dec 16, 2022 (check local listings)

Holly Gore, Research Director at the Wharton Esherick Museum on Wharton Esherick's Bedroom Trap Door and Desk. Bonus video from HOME episode. PBS broadcast premiere Dec 16, 2022 (check local listings)

Potter Ayumi Horie on her color study tiles. Bonus video from INSPIRATION episode. PBS broadcast premiere Dec 16, 2022 (check local listings)

Harriete Estel Berman is an American artist and sculptor. Since 1988, she has been using post-consumer, recycled materials to create jewelry, Judaica, and sculpture. Segment from the JEWELRY episode

Art Smith (1917–1982) was a highly acclaimed jewelry artist whose extraordinary avant-garde creations pushed the limits of modernism from 1946 to the early 70s. Much of his work was a completely different scale from his contemporaries. He has been called a star of the modernist jewelry movement. Segment from the JEWELRY episode

Jesse Monongya is a master Navajo/Hopi jeweler Monongya is best known for his night-sky designs inlaid into a bear shape, which symbolizes strength and power, as well as other forms. His bracelets, necklaces, pendants, bolo ties, and earrings inlaid with Acoma jet, sugilite, coral, turquoise, lapis, and ivory among others are complemented by the dramatic southwestern landscapes that inspired him.