“Here they are,” local artist Sara Hanson said as she held up a metal cast of a pair of dress shoes, weighing over 5 pounds. “These were made by a formerly incarcerated man to symbolize his future ...

The tour will include a bronze metal pouring at 1:00 pm. Learn about the whole process of artistic fabrication—starting from when an artist comes up with a vision to when the final piece of art is ...

Follow the homemade foundry furnace plans outlined in this article, including instructions, diagrams, and details of working with metal to make shop tools. It’s funny how an event will sort of get ...

Cloaked in layers of leather, hard hats and safety glasses, the artists waited in anticipation for glowing iron to pour from the cupola furnace. ASU's metal casting arts organization, Fahrenheit 2150, ...

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 ...

So the casting didn't go great. First, open molds suck, wasted a lot of extra material on overspill. Second, I suck at pouring. Finally, the kinetic sand didn't work as well as I hoped. When I made ...