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2019 NCCCIAP Program: Beyond the Parting Line
Attached is a copy of the 2019 NCCCIAP's program
2021 NCCCIAP Program: Lived Histories, Imagined Futures
Attached is a copy of the 2021 NCCCIAP's program
2023 NCCCIAP: What I Learned at Keen Foundry
Kurt Dryhaug (Lamar University) Erin Cummingham (The University of Texas at Austin) Eric Fuertes (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Stacey Holloway (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Butch Jack (Contemporary Sculptor) Donnie Keen (Keen Foundry) Wayne Potratz (Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota) Luke Sides (Collin College) Jen Torres (University of Southern Mississippi) This panel will address making cast iron art in an industrial foundry. All panelists have
2023 NCCCIAP: Keynote Address Tobias Flores
Tobias Flores Introduction by Noah Kirby Toby was born in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1971. He studied printmaking, drawing, and sculpture in San Diego receiving a BA from San Diego State University in 2000. At SDSU he changed his major from printmaking to sculpture after learning to work with metal under master sculptor Gerald Dumlao. He studied sculpture and blacksmithing at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale receiving an MFA in 2003. He currently lives and works in Hays,
2023 NCCCIAP: Safety First?
Gerry Masse (Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum) Tracey Pfaff (Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum) Various Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum Artists Here is a quick run down of the Sculpture Trails safety tips given to the inters and artists just before they pour 30,000 pounds of iron during the Cast Iron Sculpture Workshops at the Sculpture Trails every July. Sculpture Trails safety officer, along with Gerry Masse, and a few Trails artists, share the most dangerous iron pour experie
2023 NCCCIAP: Methods to the Madness
Stacey Rathert (University of Mississippi) We share a great deal of knowledge about the material and process of cast iron at our conferences, which we take with us when we return to our respective corners of the world and pass on to others. For those working in academia or settings with opportunity to teach, returning from conferences with new information inspires more engaging instruction and innovative ideas in the classroom. The actual process of translating this knowledge
2023 NCCCIAP: Shift Change: Recipe Book
Stacey Holloway (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Christyn Overstake (Independent Artist) 'Shift Change: Recipe Book' will be a short presentation that introduces the collaborative project of a composed book of recipes from our fine art iron processes and community. For example: bot, bottom sand, ceramic shell slurry, and green sand mixtures, furnace diagrams, tricks and tips with sand molds, hand-drawn directions of choreography of a performance; notes from a demo, a rec
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