Thicket, by Tom Joyce

A PROJECTTenTenTen commission

for the Mint Museum of Craft + Design 

at the Mint Museum Uptown

 "No matter how complicated or technically difficult Joyce's work may be in execution,

 the finished pieces are always forthright, displaying an overriding simplicity,

a notable restraint, and a relevant rightness in their composition"

-Malin Wilson-Powell

 About the Artist 

• Tom Joyce is an artist who lives in Sante Fe, New Mexico.  He began apprenticing for a blacksmith at the age of 12 and established a blacksmithing career after that.  After only a few years he transitioned to metal arts.  In 2003, Joyce won the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

• Artist's website  

Articles

• In this March 2015 talk at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Joyce presents Thicket
• Tom Joyce: Broadband Virtuoso,  Metalsmith (Winter 2009)
• Craft In America site - essay, virtual exhibition and video
• Memory segment featuring Tom Joyce 
• Portrait of the Artist as a Blacksmith SantaFe.com localflavor magazine (2/1/07) 
• Studio Tour - Tom Joyce, Metalsmith (Spring 2004) from Ganoksin,  
• Artnet profile - CV and examples of his work
• Swords Into Plowshares, New York Times, (8/14/05) 

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 Edited by Laura Brown, intern for The Mint Museum Library