A History of Black Craft

04/02/2025 23 min Episodio 943
A History of Black Craft

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Robell Awake is a designer, chairmaker, researcher, and educator. He's written a new book, A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects, that tells the stories of important yet underappreciated Black chairmakers, welders, dressmakers, basketmakers and more. Awake discusses his research and shares his own journey as a chairmaker.