Tom Joyce
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"Tom Joyce" (born 1956) is an artist, blacksmith, and designer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico/Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since 1977 he has forged sculpture, architectural ironwork and public art for projects throughout the United States. Joyce infuses many of these works with meaning by incorporating inherited histories represented by the specific material he uses.

In both public and private commissions, he encourages individuals to participate in the making process by donating iron objects collected from the landscape or that hold particular significance to their owner.[http://www.segal.northwestern.edu/segal/pictures/photo/007-baptismal-font-close/ 007. Baptismal Font, close up]

From the "Rio Grande Gates", forged from iron refuse retrieved from a quarter mile stretch of the Rio Grande for the Albuquerque Museum of Art, to iron sculptures forged from massive industrial scrap, Joyce re-examines the social, political, economic, and historical implications of using iron in his work. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/arts/design/14berk.html?pagewanted=all Swords Into Plowshares - New York Times]

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