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Art of Craft is a series about craftspeople whose work rises to the level of art. Two years later, a shop selling musical instruments opened in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, her hometown, and An became a fixture there, pelting the owner with questions. As a teenager, she decided she would become a violin maker. Eventually, a journey with twists and turns took her to Cremona in northern Italy — a famed hub for violin makers, including masters like Antonio Stradivari, since the 16th century. There, An, a rising star in the violin-making world with international awards under her belt, runs her own workshop.

Persons: Ayoung, “, Antonio Stradivari Locations: Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Cremona, Italy

Mr. Vines, who now works out of a storefront in Fountain, N.C., grew up on a plantation in nearby Greene County during the Jim Crow era, working alongside his mother in the fields for meager wages. When he got older, he toured for a bit as a jazz musician. But the quest to recreate that one sound proved to be the animating force of his life. “These guitars here got a character and a sound of their own,” Mr. Vines said in a video accompanying his exhibition. “You’re going to get something really special and unique, like the opposite of a guitar you just buy off the rack.”

Art of Craft is a series about specialists whose work rises to the level of art. Are blacksmiths going extinct in America? Not according to Craig Kaviar, a prominent practitioner of the craft who is based in Louisville, Ky. If anything, he said, “there’s been a revival.”The industrial revolution rendered a lot of traditional blacksmith work — making hammers, nails, axes, shovels and more — obsolete. But blacksmiths like Mr. Kaviar, 69, have found success creating so-called “functional art.” Mr. Kaviar, for instance, is regionally known for making handrails forged with leaves and birds that have a rough-hewed, borderline macabre design evocative of the work of sculptors like Louise Bourgeois.

Art of Craft is a series about specialists whose work rises to the level of art. The textile artist Bisa Butler was working in her studio in Jersey City, N.J., one day when her husband, John Butler, a D.J., played the song “The World Is Yours” by the hip-hop artist Nas. The song had a particular resonance for Ms. Butler and something clicked: “We can make of this world what we want,” she said. “Right now if you watch the news or read the wrong paper, or any paper, you can get depressed,” Ms. Butler said. Pieces in Ms. Butler’s new show are priced at six figures and up.

Art of Craft is a series about specialists whose work rises to the level of art. Glass blowing, it turned out, was where Deborah Czeresko found a craft that engaged her whole body. She found the solution in a class at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop, now known as UrbanGlass: Glass blowing, she learned, required grip strength, endurance and balance. “It’s like a sport out there, in that it is physical, and it’s moving all the time,” said Czeresko. “So the knowledge was taken in through my body and came out through my body.”

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