PBS Premiere | Craft In America's Visionaries

Last weekend, Jack Lenor Larsen invited guests to join him at LongHouse Reserve for a private screening of the documentary series, Craft In America: Visionaries. The PBS special documents the ways in which artists and influencers inspire new generations to envision the limitless possibilities of craft. The program features Larsen, textile designer and founder of LongHouse, as well as curator Helen Molesworth and Black Mountain College, weaver Kay Sekimachi, collector Forrest L. Merrill, and book artist Felicia Rice.

This Friday December 21, you can watch the premiere of Craft in America's documentary series California and Visionaries on PBS. Visionaries featuring Jack Lenor Larson will air at 10PM.

Guests that attended the priviate screening included: Jon Ambrose, Dianne Benson, Mary Busch, James Brasher, Jeffrey and Stacey Collé, Rebecca Chapman, Ron Chapman, Young Chung, Elizabeth Dow, Nina Gillman, Karin Greene, Dr. Jay Hunt, Jane Iselin, Katora Miller, Wendy Moonan, Joi Jackson-Perle, Peter Olsen,Selena Rothwell, Charles Savage, Amy and Ray Smith, Matko Tomicic, and David Yoo.

Crafts In America is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to advancing original handcrafted work through the Peabody Award-winning documentary series on PBS nationwide and the free-to-the-public Craft in America Center in Los Angeles.

If you'd like to visit LongHouse Reserve this winter, it is open through April 26. 2019. LongHouse will be open by appointment only, Monday through Saturday. It is closed on Sundays. Admission is $15. Please call for more information at 631-329-3568, or visit longhouse.org. It is located at 133 Hands Creek Road, East Hampton. LongHouse is located on sixteen acres of gardens with outdoor sculpture by Dale Chihuly, Willem de Kooning, Sol LeWitt, Yoko Ono, George Rickey, among other notables.

Photo credit: Richard Lewin