Silver, walleyed, huge-headed creatures conduct strange business on lapels. Miniature gold people with spindly arms and legs whose heads have been replaced by leaves or budding flowers tote shovels, crooks, or water cans as they run over dresses or jackets. Bruce Metcalf has created a tiny world populated by silver, gold, electoformed copper and painted wood heroes who are at home in the world of costume, worn on clothing as brooches. Or we may encounter Mr. Metcalf's characters in repose, set into arched, stage-like spaces wherein they appear paused before potentially poetic and certainly strange soliloquies. "I make tiny secular passion plays which tour the world when they are worn," writes the artist. In this drama, the costumes belong to us and not to the actors. This drama is played out by quixotic characters that are distant cousins to cameos. With seeming naivete they ponder a moral cosmos within which they--like us--imagine themselves as small and incapable of profound change. Like us, these characters may feel powerless to change the plots they play out. Like us, they are probably underestimating their real capacity to inspire positive change. Bruce Metcalf received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University and a Master of Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art. Mr. Metcalf has received crafts fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. Over 27 solo exhibitions of his work have been mounted at venues including Jewelers Work Gallery, Washington; Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, California; and Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia. His work has been included in major exhibitions at the American Craft Museum, New York; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, Het Kruithaus, s'Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; Akron Art Museum, Ohio; Dayton Art Institute, Ohio; Renwick Galleryof the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia; and the Galeria Universiteria Artistos, Mexico City. Mr. Metcalf also contributes art criticism to American Craft, Metalsmith, Studio Potter, Crafts Australia, and Design (a Korean arts magazine). He is currently a senior lecturer at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.