Women Films

Women of Old-time Music: Tradition and Change in the Missouri Ozarks takes on the commonly-held folk music scholarship assertion that women did not widely participate in old-time…

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…

Part 6 traces institutional attitudes toward quilts as objects, rationales for their selection, and the public response to their exhibition.

In 2002 the art world was rocked to its foundations by a group of unusual, abstract quilts made by African American women from an obscure hamlet in southern Alabama. People lined…

The quilt is the perfect test case for a dozen theories about what makes art. The art vs. craft debate

The quilt’s unique ability to preserve, not only our own family histories, but the history of America

Quilt scholarship has grown into a serious discipline generating material of interest—not just to the quilt world — but to a dozen other important disciplines from material…

“Quilt making,” as one quilt maker says, “is the greatest mass movement nobody ever heard of.” The population of the American quilt world outnumbers those of many small countries,…

The gifted African American storyteller Louise Anderson (1921-1994) tells her family stories and folk tales, and recites poetry in this film taped in Jacksonville, North Carolina,…

A portrait of a Lao refugee woman Mone Saenphimmachak who seeks to overcome loss through the weaving for which her people are famous. Mone Saenphimmachak is a National Heritage…

Featuring, Margaret Carr, a well-known figure in the upstate New York weaving community

A film document of three elderly residents of Orange County, Indiana. Featured in the film are musician Lotus Dickey, clock builder and tinkerer Elmer Boyd, and self-taught artist…

Sikhs in Northern California celebrate special events with Giddha and Bhangra, songs and dances from their native land, Punjab, India.

This 57 minute documentary continues the story of the Landis family of Creedmoor, NC into the 21 Century. The first film " A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle" was…

The story of a gifted African American family from the rural South. With interviews and stories, and scenes from daily life, reunions, gospel concerts, and church services, the…