32nd Annual Minnesota Iron Pour Pictures

The 32nd Annual Minnesota Iron Pour will be held
Friday, April 20th in the Foundry Annex of the Art Building,
West Bank Campus, University of Minnesota.

Related Events:

April 19th,
Thursday 7:00 pm
Artist Talk:Guest Artist Alex Wilds from the small town of Takicho, near Matsue in Shimane Prefecture, Japan will be giving a slide talk about Japanese Contemporary Cast Sculpture, the Tatara Furnace [a traditional Japanese furnace for smelting iron to make both cast iron and steel], and his own work. Of special interest will be Wild's description of making sculpture with primitive tools and scarce resources. Alex Wilds holds the PhD degree in Art Education from the University of Minnesota and is fluent in Japanese.

 - 9:30 AM
 
   
   
   
Joining Artist Alex Wilds
for the 32nd Annual Minnesota Iron Pour
will be guest artists and students from
the U of MN - Department of Art and:
10:30 AM

SouthWest State University, Marshall, MN
 Professor Jim Swartz

The University of Wisconsin- Superior
 Professor Tim Cleary

The Kohler Arts Industry Program
of Kohler Wisconsin
 Heather Marie Podulke, Matt Toole
noon
 1pm
 
   
   
   
   

In conjunction with the 32nd Annual Iron Pour, Professor Wayne E. Potratz has organized National Iron Pour Day.
Each pour site will attempt to put its iron pour on the internet as either a live video stream, quicktime movie, or series of still images. Each group pour will be able to "tap into" the iron pours of the others. National Iron Pour Day calls attention to the very active interest in cast iron art making all across the country. National Iron Pour Day is also a warm-up for the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art which will be held next year at Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ April 10-13, 2002

 

The following colleges, universities, and art institutions will all be pouring iron on April 20th:
  Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
  Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
  East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
  Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
  University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
  University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas NM
  University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
  Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
  Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ
  Kohler Arts Industry Program, Kohler, WI
  Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ
  University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
  SouthWest State University , Marshall, MN
  University of Wisconsin- Superior
  New Orleans Sculpture Lab, LLC, New Orleans, LA