A PROJECTTenTenTen commission

for the Mint Museum of Craft + Design Uptown

Opening October 2010

 "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

Video from Living Portrait of New Mexico New Mexico CultureNet

• 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.

Articles

• Tom Joyce: Broadband Virtuoso,  Metalsmith (Winter 2009) 
• PBS Craft In America site - essay, virtual exhibition and video
• 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) 
• 2009 recipient New Mexico's Awards for Excellence in the Arts 

Exhibitions/Events

• Tom Joyce: A LIfe of Iron  lecture, Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University 
• Qnuru: Designed by Tom Joyce at James Kelley Contemporary 

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 Edited by Laura Brown, intern for The Mint Museum Library