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Craft in America
Woodcarver Michelle Holzapfel
Self-taught woodturner and carver Michelle Holzapfel creates vases, bowls, boxes, and still life sculpture from local hardwoods like burls, unmanageable crotches, gnarled branches, center rotten trunks that are left behind in the forest after logging operations have ceased. Segment from the NATURE episode
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