...."Craft in America," which premiered in 2007, returns at 8 tonight with two episodes, "Origins" and "Process." They're followed at 10 p.m. by the season opener of the critically acclaimed biennial program "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century." At 10 p.m. Tuesday, collectors "Herb & Dorothy" launch 2009-10 "Independent Lens" programming.The high points of the former are segments with the Owens family of venerable Jugtown Pottery in Seagrove, N.C., where local clay has been spun into functional ware for generations, and with Charleston, S.C., blacksmith Philip Simmons, whose signature iron gates are synonymous with the coastal city's charm.
It's a pleasure to meet Vernon Owens, who has thrived on the hard and rhythmic work of throwing pots for five decades. But his story is made vivid by the contentment in the eyes of his son Travis, a graduate of the College of Art and Design at North Carolina State University, as he contemplates his future in the Jugtown continuum."
Read more: at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette article by By Mary Thomas
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