When Lake Effect's material culture contributor Gianofer Fields was a kid, her father worked at Pelton Steel Casting Company in Milwaukee. Very simply put, casting metal is the process of melting iron ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) — The cast iron furnaces at the University of Southern Mississippi are heating up for the “Annual Iron Pour.” Hosted by the USM School of Performing and Visual Arts, this ...

Casting metal and 3D printing go together like nuts and gum, and there are no shortage techniques that use the two together. Lost PLA casting is common, and sculptors are getting turned on to creating ...

Hot metal was flowing during Lamar University's annual iron pour. Here's more about the event.

A nomadic tribe, the artists who work in hot iron roam the world in search of iron pours. They tend to know each other; they join together to create the pours, because it's not something you can do ...

Most art projects do not come with an inherent element of danger. The students participating in this year’s Keystone Iron Works program, however, will have to face just that this Saturday when they ...

Hilla Shamia builds furniture combining cast aluminium and wood. Trained at the Holon Institute of Technology, Industrial Design Department, Hilla developed a unique technique that joins the materials ...

Pouring molten aluminum into things is always a fun science experiment so let’s see what happens when the hot hot gooey metal gets dropped inside a groovy lava lamp. A lot of what you expect to happen ...

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