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JEWELRY explores the history, artistry, and impact of personal adornment. Featuring: classic jeweler Tom Herman; Harriete Estel Berman who creates jewelry with recycled materials; the legacy of modernist jeweler Art Smith; nature-inspired artist Gabrielle Gould; and Navajo/Hopi master jeweler Jesse Monongya.
3) Creators
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From jewelry to science to fashion, African visionaries are bringing concepts to reality.
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Charles Loloma was one of the first Native American jewelers to use gold instead of silver and diamonds and other precious gems in addition to turquoise, coral, and shell. His innovative designs, so sculptural in quality, were internationally acclaimed. And his clients included celebrities, monarchs, and presidents. This program examines the work of Charles Loloma-and how the visionary behind the enchanting jewelry managed to break the barriers that...
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Albert Paley is world-renowned for his metal work in jewelry and large-scale sculpture. This program provides a comprehensive overview of his life and work, including his studies at Temple University's Tyler School of Art, his early work in jewelry design, and more contemporary works such as the Renwick Gates and his decorative architectural sculpture for Bausch & Lomb. Commentary from Elizabeth Broun, director of the National Museum of American Art,...
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Neighbors explores the people, history, and traditions of crafts from the U.S. and Mexico, noting how aesthetics cross over and back again in a living and ongoing cultural exchange. Featured artists include glass artist Jaime Guerrero; Mexican ceramic artists Magdalena Pedro Martínez and Carlomagno Pedro Martínez; world-renowned painter, muralist, community arts pioneer, and scholar Judy Baca; California ceramic artist Gerardo Monterrubio; and silver...
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The origin of most gold in the jewelry industry is uncertain. While it is a symbol of luxury for many, it is a source of pollution and destruction for others. Illegal and environmentally unsound mining practices in Brazil and Peru create social and environmental conflicts that reach beyond local areas, and we as consumers play a role. This film reveals important issues about the Amazonian gold rush that is continuing in silence and indifference, regardless...
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As the age approaches our own, time accelerates; and in the six-and-a-half decades of Victoria's reign, changes came thick and fast: England's population doubled, the economy exploded, railways shrank the country's size, iron and steel were everywhere-in clothing too, in the women's steel hoops and cages and bustles. This was an age that began in moderation and soon became a contest for conspicuous consumption; an age of contradictions, too, when...
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In Search for the Trojan War, begins with "The Age of the Heroes," in which Michael Woods follows the footsteps of early archeologist, Heinrich Schliemann, who searched from 1870 to his death in 1890 for evidence of the historic city. Filmed in Greece, Turkey and Europe, the heroes from Homer's "Iliad" come alive as Schliemann's quest uncovers what he believed to be Priam's Treasure at Hisarlik, Agamemnon's burial mask at Mycenae, and Mycenaean murals...
12) The Mayans
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The most advanced of the pre-Hispanic peoples of Central America, the Mayans rose to great prominence, only to suddenly decline around the year AD 900. In this program, cultural historian Iain Grain delves into Mayan history, investigating topics such as the Mayans' mastery of mathematics, their extremely hierarchical society, their use of human sacrifice to induce rain, and Mayan art. Many examples of Mayan architecture are provided as well, plus...
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In this Globe Trekker video, Ian Wright, Justine Shapiro, and Zay Harding explore the history and culture of Mexico, starting with a trek into the mountains to climb the mighty pyramids and see the remains of Teotihuacan, Chichen Itza, Palenque, Tulum and Tenochtitlan, where the Mayans, Aztecs, and other pre-colonial Mexicans lived and worshipped. They investigate how the arrival of Cortez and Christianity near Acapulco in 1519 transformed the country's...
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From a material as fragile and ephemeral as paper, a new league of jewelry, bags, and even dresses have emerged and taken the fashion world by surprise. This program takes a look at fashion designs made from paper. While paper fashion in the form of clothing and jewelry has made its presence felt since the 1960s, it has never caught on with the public at large. But all that may be changing, thanks to Polly Verity, Naoko Yoshizawa, and Giles Miller,...
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The common thread that joined all great ancient powers was the need to trade. This episode of Secrets of Ancient Empires explains how trade was carried out across continents long before a single road was constructed. Nor was it only raw materials that were common currency –the program reveals how luxury items such as honey, jewelry and opium were bought and sold across the world via a complex network of trade routes.
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Industryexplores the business of the handmade, taking us to workshops where artists are crafting the future and making contributions to the local and national economies. The film highlights the important connection between the consumer and the maker and explores the value of exquisitely crafted handmade objects in today's creative economy, from quilts and wooden boats to textiles and fine jewelry.
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This program is devoted to the women of a warrior tribe whose origin is ancient but unknown and which lives today in eastern Niger. It shows the life of the people, focusing on the traditions according to which the women live, behave, and make themselves beautiful-the complicated painting that constitutes makeup, the even more complicated hairstyles and their meanings, the role of facial scars and jewelry; the same standards of beauty are applied...
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Inspired by their experiences with motherhood, more and more women are achieving work-at-home success as mompreneurs. This program focuses on the jewelry business Bijouxbead, launched with a massive loan against the family home. Also profiled on the show is millionaire Sandra Wilson, founder of Robeez Footwear-a thriving business launched from a basement. The guest experts in this episode of Fortune Hunters are Kathryn Bechtold, editor of The Mompreneur...