Renowned Local Artist Joe Minter Celebrated as His First Solo Show Opens in Birmingham

By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times Long before hundreds of elected officials, neighborhood leaders and artists gathered at the Marc Steel Company in Birmingham’s Titusville community for his first solo show in his hometown, Joe Minter, the artist himself, patrolled the warehouse followed by photographers preparing a shoot for national publications. The exhibit “Joe Minter Is Here,” which is free and open to the public through October 20, features pieces such as The Peacemaker (1993) made of scrap metal and lawnmower blades; The Many Uses Of Chain (1995) made of scrap metal, plow blade and chain and Grandma’s Hands (2012) made of antique chair, scrap metal, shovel heads and handles and more. Surveying much of his art, Minter said, “Miracles come to those that wait, to those that work themselves through a miracle to others.” While his art can be found in collections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. this never-before-exhibited work finally came to the city where Minter became an artist of renown. The exhibit “Joe Minter Is Here” is free and open to the public through October 20. (Barnett Wright, The Birmingham Times) His morning shoot was...