![]() ![]() Concert programs, notes from friends, postcards, sports ribbons, report cards, and other parts of our lived experience can be found on desktops and countertops, in drawers and scrapbooks. We often choose to hang on to such items. You decide to save or discard this piece of your past-this tiny fragment of your life. You reach into a coat pocket and pull out a ticket stub, a reminder of the movie you saw over the weekend. It has taught me of course about the value of the smallest pieces that are generated in the shop. My mother being a quilt maker and my father being an amateur archeologist and thinking about the fragments of things and their use with the culture. Kit Carson (jewelry ans sculpture/ LANDSCAPE) Mississippi Cultural Crossroads (quilting/COMMUNITY) By working with the notion of fragments themselves, students will deepen their knowledge and understanding and gain greater insight into this important aspect of craft in America. In this section of Education Guide: MEMORY, teachers will help students develop an understanding of how selected craft artists work with the notion of fragments and then guide them through a variety of inquiry-based explorations. ![]() ![]() This educational guide helps develop craft in a larger context, providing educators with material that will relate to and reflect the core ideas and art forms presented in the MEMORY episode.Ī fragment is, by definition, a small piece of some larger whole. In any case our Nation’s collective memory can become tangible when we examine objects created by the hand. Some hands create to record a place and time others are more intimate gestures about personal histories. ![]()
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