Del Hornbuckle

Born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Economics and Master's degree in Library and Information Science. Decades of experience in library administration and management and is currently the dean of library services at California State University-Fresno.

I am submitting three miniature display rooms representing the black experience in the last century-the “Talented Tenth” and the effervescent “black dandy” (our intellectual prowess); the neighborhood record store; and a remembrance of how we got over (the ancestral room).

I have had a love and appreciation of miniatures since my childhood and starting collecting decades ago, but I became serious about miniatures as an art form and creative expression in the last ten years. I work with miniature prints and woodwork in telling stories about spaces, architecture, and interior design on a small scale.

Miniatures are dismissed as an odd hobby, child’s play but they are very present in artistic reproduction, design and planning. Miniatures are fantasy, a reproduction of human-scale objects, and a reimagining of spaces and objects by controlling a small scale environment; all of which aligns with architectural and interior design.

In the last few years, I have focused on celebrating the black experience using miniatures as a creative expression of race, black interior space and design.

My work is a reflection of the post-Reconstruction black experience on a 1:12 miniature scale, one that intersects race, positionality and black spaces.

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