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AT THE CRANE SCHOOL OF MUSIC IN POTSDAM, NEW YORK, FLUTIST BRIAN DUNBAR TEACHES UP AND COMING MUSICIANS THE BEAUTIES AND INTRICACIES OF HIS FAVORED INSTRUMENT. IN ADDITION, HE PERFORMS AS A SOLOIST, ORCHESTRAL PERFORMER, AND CHAMBER MUSICIAN.

DOUGLAS RUBIO IS A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED MUSICIAN AND A PROFESSOR OF CLASSICAL GUITAR AT THE CRANE SCHOOL OF MUSIC IN POTSDAM, NEW YORK. WE LEARN MORE ABOUT HIS LOVE OF TEACHING AND LISTEN TO HIM PERFORM.

CARRIE HILL IS A BASKETMAKER FROM AKWESASNE MOHAWK TERRITORY IN NEW YORK. HAVING LEARNED THE CRAFT FROM HER AUNT, SHE HAS CONTINUED THE TRADITION BY TRANSFORMING BLACK ASH SPLINTS AND SWEETGRASS INTO WORKS OF ART.

WE DIVE INTO THE CRAFTSMANSHIP OF TRADITIONAL WOODWORKING...USING MODERN DAY TOOLS. WE TAKE YOU TO SAINT LAWRENCE COUNTY TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MATT ROZLER. A RETIRED NEW YORK STATE POLICE INVESTIGATOR, ROZLER WORKS FULL TIME TO CREATE MASTERFUL AND PRACTICAL PIECES FOR THE REGION.

YOU'VE SEEN THEM AS YOU DRIVE THE ROADWAYS, MOSTLY ON BARNS... BUT ALSO ON RESIDENTIAL HOMES AND SOME BUSINESSES. THEY ARE COLORFUL PIECES OF ART KNOWN AS BARN QUILTS. AND RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE ALL THE RAGE WE TAKE YOU INSIDE A CLASSROOM AT HERMAN DEKALB...WHERE BARN QUILTING – IS STIMULATING YOUNG MINDS.

WE INTRODUCE YOU TO MATHILDE LIND – A WELL TRAVELED FIBER ARTIST, EAGER TO MAKE HER WAY THROUGH THE WORLD AS A FOLKLORIST AND TEACHER.

WE TAKE YOU TO SAINT LAWRENCE COUNTY WHERE ARTISAN JEWELER RUTH VARLEY IS PULLING OUT ALL THE STOPS...AND...GLASS, FROM THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER.

ARTIST ROXANNE LOCY IS A RETIRED ART TEACHER WHO SPENDS MOST OF HER DAYS IN HER COLORFUL STUDIO, THROWING AND SCULPTING EARTHENWARE MASTERPIECES.

We take you inside a drumming circle at St. Lawrence University, where instructor Len Mackey teaches West African drumming.

We take you to the Akwesasne reservation for the powerful music of Bear Fox.

Nestled in a studio along the St. Lawrence River in Hammond is an incredible artist, Scott Ouderkirk. His stained glass creations and boat restorations are undeniably unique.

Margaret Chalker is an educator and opera singer whose talents and career have taken her across the globe.

John Morrow is an Ogdensburg artist whose creative style weaves nature, man, and time as an underlying theme. Internationally, his work has been on the cover of Readers Digest. Regionally, he and his wife own the Clark Art gallery in Ogdensburg.