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Crafting Tradition

Honoring Kentucky’s hand-made past

Grade Levels:: 5-adult
Length:: 60 minutes
Taping Rights:: Unlimited
MARC Record:: Downloadable
Teaching Materials:: See Below

Pioneer families made baskets, fishing nets, quilts, brooms, and furniture by hand, from whatever materials were available, because they had to. Today, these same items are mass-produced and readily available, but the hand-made versions persist for very different reasons. KET’s Crafting Tradition visits members of five Western Kentucky families to discover how they are preserving the tradition of hand-crafting these household items—and why they believe it is important to maintain this link to the past.

Possible classroom themes include “art” vs. “craft,” how making things together can bind families or communities, pioneer life, and the importance and relevance of “the old ways” to the present.

Program of Studies:
Visual Arts: Structure in the Arts, Humanity in the Arts, Processes in the Arts, Interrelationships Among the Arts

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: Pioneer families made baskets, fishing nets, quilts, brooms, and furniture by hand, from whatever materials were available, because they had to. Today, these same items are mass-produced and readily available, but the hand-made versions persist for very different reasons. This 1993 KET documentary visits members of five Western Kentucky families to discover how they are preserving the tradition of hand-crafting these household items—and why they believe it is important to maintain this link to the past. 58 minutes; Tuesday, August 5 at 10:00 am on KETKY; Thursday, August 7 at noon on KETKY; Saturday, August 9 at 1:00 pm on KETKY; Wednesday, August 13 at 3:00 pm on KETKY; Monday, September 1 at 9:00 am on KETKY; Monday, September 15 at 5:00 am on KETKY; Tuesday, September 16 at noon on KETKY; Wednesday, September 17 at 10:00 am on KETKY; Friday, September 19 at 3:00 pm on KETKY; Thursday, September 25 at 4:00 am on KETKY

These videos are also available on KET EncycloMedia.

Teaching Materials

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Kentucky Academic Expectations

This program relates to the following Kentucky Academic Expectations.

2.23	Art Form
2.24	Aesthetics
2.25	Cultural Heritage
2.26	Cultural Diversity in Arts

Kentucky schools may tape and retain programs according to the rights listed above. For further information, contact the KET Education Division.

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