Bruce Metcalf

Bruce Metcalf is a practicing artist with 34 solo exhibitions, 244 shows in the United States and 30 abroad. A graduate of Syracuse University with an MFA from Tyler School of Art, he has 20 years experience teaching jewelry and metalsmithing at Kent State University in Ohio, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and other institutions. He has also taught a history of modern crafts course at several universities, including Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. His major awards include a Pew Fellowship in 1996, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in 1992 and 1977. The retrospective exhibition of his work "The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf" was organized by the Palo Alto Art Center in 2009.

Metcalf also has a long record of philosophical and critical consideration of the crafts. From 1987 until 2000, he wrote “Recent Sightings” a regular column for Metalsmith magazine. He is widely known for two important essays that appeared in American Craft magazine, “The Hand: At the Heart of Craft” in 2002, and “Replacing the Myth of Modernism” in 1993. In recognition of the influence of his writings, he has been invited to speak at symposia and conferences from Australia to Sweden.

(Source: www.brucemetcalf.com and www.americanstudiocrafthistory.com)