Featuring Panelists Stacey Holloway, Page Burch, Morgan Lugo, and Kevin Vanek.

Current trends in sculpture have shifted drastically towards using new technological advances and have been slowly veering away from traditional methods and processes. Although these advances can assist in rapid production output and/or more accurate representation, we sometimes seem to leave behind the significance of the “artist’s hand” that is present in traditional techniques. This technical group presentation will explore various traditional explorations of mold making and their applications to the current iron casting practice. Using their own personal knowledge and experience, each presenter will give a 10 -15 minute presentation on a specific traditional method of mold making that they find to be very useful in their own contemporary professional practice.