dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives
reversing stereotypes and reclaiming history and memory
until her untimely death in 1993
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Calder Fanni Brooch Home dramatically changing the ways thatThis piece was created by Bode in honor of the centennial celebration of Calders Circus, in collaboration with the Calder Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art. First created in Paris in 1926, Alexander Calders Cirque is a portable miniature circus fashioned from wire, cork, fabric, and other materialsat once sculpture, theater, and performance. The brooch, inspired by Cirque Calders Fanni, the Belly Dancer, act, is a miniature replica of