Location: Mint Museum of Craft + Design

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Information: General 704-337-2000

Dates: Sat, Feb 21, 2009 - Sun, May 17, 2009

Jones Gallery

The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf is the first exhibition with a retrospective view of the artist's work, featuring 75 pieces dating from the 1970s to the present. This exhibition of Metcalf's work displays his interest in architecture, comics, and narrative. It examines the social, moral, and political issues Metcalf raised in essays about the handmade. In their dual life as wearable brooches, Metcalf's bigheaded and vulnerable protagonists venture into the world on their miniature stages to engage the unsuspecting viewer.

See Metcalf's essay on YouTube.


Download a family guide for Bruce Metcalf.


For more information, see the Mint Wiki for authoritative online resource links, artist audio and video files, and catalog links to print resources. The Mint Museum Library creates and maintains the Mint Wiki.

A full color catalog accompanies the exhibition.

 

Organized by: Palo Alto Art Center, Division of Arts and Sciences, City of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California. This Exhibition has been made possible through the support of the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation; Rotasa Foundation, Windgate Charitable Foundation, the Arts

Sponsored by: The Founders' Circle Ltd.

For additional information, please contact:

Allie Farlowe – email , phone: 704-337-2059