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Why Quilts Matter: 07: Empowering Women
2011 | 28mins
Why Quilts Matter: 07: Empowering Women
2011 | 28mins
Unique among objects, quilts are both lowly “women’s work” and great art. They are something made from nothing; they are both nurturing and inspiring. They can communicate both…
Why Quilts Matter: 06: How Quilts have been Viewed and Collected
2011 | 28mins
Why Quilts Matter: 06: How Quilts have been Viewed and Collected
2011 | 28mins
Part 6 traces institutional attitudes toward quilts as objects, rationales for their selection, and the public response to their exhibition.
Why Quilts Matter: 02: Bringing History Alive
2011 | 27mins
Why Quilts Matter: 02: Bringing History Alive
2011 | 27mins
The quilt’s unique ability to preserve, not only our own family histories, but the history of America
Why Quilts Matter: 04: What is Art?
2011 | 27mins
Why Quilts Matter: 04: What is Art?
2011 | 27mins
The quilt is the perfect test case for a dozen theories about what makes art. The art vs. craft debate
Why Quilts Matter: 03: The Quilt Marketplace
Why Quilts Matter: 03: The Quilt Marketplace
The Quilt Marketplace
Why Quilts Matter: 01: Antique and Contemporary
2011 | 28mins
Why Quilts Matter: 01: Antique and Contemporary
2011 | 28mins
Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics is a nine-part documentary series that will change the way you think about quilts. Uncover the unsuspected size and depth of quilt…
Looking for Trouble
31mins
Looking for Trouble
31mins
Violence at Cajun dances, bars, and night clubs increased exponentially after the Civil War. Locals coped with economic collapse and the horrors of war by formulating an honor…
Baghdad Twist
2007 | 33mins
Baghdad Twist
2007 | 33mins
A visual memoir of one family's life in Iraq before escaping to a new home in Canada in the fall of 1970. Featuring a never-before-seen collection of archival images, home movies,…
Death Row
1979 | 59mins
Death Row
1979 | 59mins
Death Row at Ellis is no worse-- and it is probably somewhat better--than most other Death Rows in America. It is the only death Row in which a documentary film could have been…
Upperville Show
1970 | 10mins
Upperville Show
1970 | 10mins
The Upperville Colt & Horse Show is the oldest horse show in America. Established in 1853 by Colonel Richard Henry Dulany, who also founded the Piedmont Fox Hounds, the show…
Elizabeth James Perry Wampanoag Traditional Artist
2016 | 7mins
Elizabeth James Perry Wampanoag Traditional Artist
2016 | 7mins
Elizabeth James-Perry's artwork is intimately tied to her Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal heritage. Her wampum belts are made using indigenous materials -- locally harvested, handspun…
Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer
2020 | 7mins
Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer
2020 | 7mins
Short film about Jesse Marsolais who works in old ways – traditional methods of letterpress printing and letter carving in stone and wood – to meet customers’ needs one letter at…
Company Town
1983 | 25mins
Company Town
1983 | 25mins
The former coal town of Widen, West Virginia. Once a model of paternalistic domination, Widen had been sold to the Pittston corpration in 1963.
Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
The Virginia Peanut Story tells the rise and fall of the dominance of the Virginia/Carolina peanut industry. Aided by returning Union soldiers after the Civil War, railroads and…
Loggers And Their Lore
1987 | 29mins
Loggers And Their Lore
1987 | 29mins
Half-hour folk art look at the poetry, songs, crafts and festivals of Northwest loggers. Aired 1987. Won PMN “Best of the West” award, Cultural Documentary, 1988. Funded by…
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