[TheForge] Re: Tom Joyce

Tue Mar 23 23:13:00 2004

Looks like a good choice to me...the man is an extremely high-talent 
smith.....
Course,  it would doubtless have been much better if I received the 
grant, but I'm much too modest to say so.

Chuck Robinson wrote:

>Some of you forgers are probably not aware that knife smith Jerry Fisk was
>picked to be one of the first national living treasures in the US a few
>years ago.
>Some of his high end work is on display at the Smithsonian.
>Chuck
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>>Mike,
>>You are right on. Being uninformed about the MacArthur Foundation I
>>found it almost unbelievable that an artist like Tom would receive that
>>kind of recognition by any foundation. There is little recognition for
>>great works that do not entertain the masses.
>>
>>With my honest respect for Tom,
>>Ray
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>>On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 05:59 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
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>>>>If true the rest of us will be filing our funding applications
>>>>Monday!!
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>>>Heh.  Don't you wish.  A few years ago I was hanging out at MIT for a
>>>spell annually.  This is a place where it's just *assumed* that
>>>*eveybody* has a PhD or, if you don't, it's because you just don't
>>>want to interrupt your brilliant creativity with such bothersome
>>>hoop-jumping.  People who invented some the technology you take for
>>>granted -- or invented the theory on which it's based -- are wandering
>>>around everywhere.  People who invented the techonolgy you find
>>>unbelievable now but will take for granted in a couple of years are
>>>eating at the next table.  And even there, people who are MacArthur
>>>Felllows get a considerable degree of respect.
>>>
>>>It ain't just the money.  This is bigtime recognition of Tom's
>>>accomplishments and his talent.
>>>
>>>- Mike
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