03 October 2009
13 September 2009
short-faced bear
Here's a link to a couple pictures of my short-faced bear piece, installed:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapprospector/3912842517/
-Steve Morse
08 September 2009
video 2009
The music is an excerpt from 'Sleep, Eat Food, Have Visions' on Four Tet's 'Everything Ecstatic'. posted on YouTube by arithmetric
franconia iron pour images 2007
Here is a link to a photo album of the 2007 iron pour at Franconia. The last images in this album are photographs of each artist with his or her mold before the pour.
07 September 2009
Group Photo 2009
Artists in Residence at Franconia, Kulture Klub Collaboration and Franconia Sculpture Park Staff at DiSuvero's "Johhny Appleseed."
From left:Jeffrey Kalstrom , Toma Villa, Amy Snyder, Meng-Hsuan Wu, Anna, Neomi Navarro, Miles Browne, Miles Browne, Araan Schmidt, Stephan Morse, Bobby Zokaites, Tasha Hock, Jacob Stanley, Renee Prisble Una (photos), Suzi Rhea Ross, Scot W Thompson (photos), John Hock,Alina (birthday girl), Hannah Lyn Glidden, Zane Hock, Paul Howe, Joe Hillmann, Chris Park, Veronica Glidden, Suzanne Mahoney, Mc Reiley, Matthew C Riley, Joey Montroy, Fernanda Sequeiros Hart, Arden Miller, Kate Clark, Felicia Glidden. Not pictured: Jim Brenner, Alexa Horochowski, Eric Legray, Tamsie Ringler (Lead Sculptor), and David Weidl
28 August 2009
5000 lbs
Prior to Franconia's 2009 iron pour, 1200-1500 pounds of iron was the norm for an average pour day. But we were at Franconia Sculpture Park where everything is large scale.
We were pouring the 15 artists' molds and dozens of scratch tiles the public sculpted in the park the day of the pour. Although sometimes controversial, pouring the scratch tiles was first priority. If we wanted the community to bring their creations home with them, they needed edges cut off, sand removed, grounded smooth and quenched. This happened due to the heroic efforts of interns and helpers who spent hours of their day at the grinding table.
Now for the other 4000lbs of iron to be poured.
Our pour teams soon dissolved with artists wanting to pour their own pieces. I understand this, I usually want to pour mine too. Fortunately, we had an amazing core group of iron artists who never left the pour floor so communication stayed open between the furnace operators and the mold captain.
The furnace spit out hundreds of pounds before it became a little gummy. Keeping the tap hole open for the final few ladles, everyone's pieces were poured.
If we are going to pour 5000 lbs next year, we may want two furnaces. One, with a team of 4 minimum, to run a 100 pound cupalette focusing on the communities scratch tiles and a 300 pound furnace focusing on the artists' molds.
Incredible day, incredible dedication , incredible stick-to-it-tiveness, incredible iron artists, incredible sculpture park. make a visit
We were pouring the 15 artists' molds and dozens of scratch tiles the public sculpted in the park the day of the pour. Although sometimes controversial, pouring the scratch tiles was first priority. If we wanted the community to bring their creations home with them, they needed edges cut off, sand removed, grounded smooth and quenched. This happened due to the heroic efforts of interns and helpers who spent hours of their day at the grinding table.
Now for the other 4000lbs of iron to be poured.
Our pour teams soon dissolved with artists wanting to pour their own pieces. I understand this, I usually want to pour mine too. Fortunately, we had an amazing core group of iron artists who never left the pour floor so communication stayed open between the furnace operators and the mold captain.
The furnace spit out hundreds of pounds before it became a little gummy. Keeping the tap hole open for the final few ladles, everyone's pieces were poured.
If we are going to pour 5000 lbs next year, we may want two furnaces. One, with a team of 4 minimum, to run a 100 pound cupalette focusing on the communities scratch tiles and a 300 pound furnace focusing on the artists' molds.
Incredible day, incredible dedication , incredible stick-to-it-tiveness, incredible iron artists, incredible sculpture park. make a visit
25 August 2009
Tapping Out to Set the Table
Araan Schmidt, Joe Montroy and Jim Brenner tap out Anurag’s 300# cupolette for MC Reiley and Scot Thompson to pour Scot’s table setting.
23 August 2009
Welcome to the Franconia Iron Blog
Welcome! This video shows a section of molten iron of Suzanne Mahoney's sculpture "Call Me Ishmael", which was the last sculpture poured at Franconia Sculpture Park's 13th annual Community Collaboration Hot Metal Pour on August 1, 2009. The iron artists poured 5000 ponds of iron this year. This site is intended to be a place for Franconia's iron artists to post images and information about these pours.
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