National Casting Center Foundry: Pour Your Heart Out

'Pour Your Heart Out' is the 'Foundry Guild' Student Club Annual Fundraising event usually taking place on the Saturday of around Valentines Weekend. Founded in 2010 with 'Pour For Haiti' where the students raised a record breaking $5000 !!

This is a unique event where members of the community are invited to make artwork in cast metal at the foundry: People of all ages and backgrounds are assisted by foundry students to make a 'relief tile' by carving a design into a block of sand which then has molten metal poured into it: this is commonly known as a 'Scratch Block'

Other activities include making small 'Cuttlebone Castings', personalizing 'Forged Metal Hearts' and eating 'Guild Cheese Sandwiches'. T-shirts, leather patches and artwork is also on sale!

Cuttlebone designs

intricate designs to be cast in aluminum

Money is raised to support a specific charity as well as the Foundry Guild Student Club activities at conferences and workshops.

The infamous Guild Cheese : cooked on Jon Moreno's Cast Iron Comal

Forging Metal Sweet Hearts with Hot Sweat

This years 'Pour Your Heart Out' took place on Sat Feb 13th 2016 and attracted over 100 people from as far away as PA and NYC. Thank You for all coming out in sub zero temperatures and helping raise money for the Eaklor Medical Expenses Fund.

Participants from the Wellsville Creative Arts Center

Happy Customer ! Blacksmith + Fireman DanVolk

Foundry Guild President, Ruby and Member Brendon enjoying the success of the day!

Intro to Sculpture Class making 'Sensory Tiles' for Dementia Patients.

In 2013 funds were raised and donated to Alzheimer's Association.

In 2011 $2500 was raised 50% of which went to Doctors without borders again with the remaining funds going to support the local fire service : The crandall Hook andLadder in Alfred, NY. Poster design by Caleb Fletcher.

In 2010 a total of $5000 of which 100% was donated to Doctors Without Borders in a kickstarter fashion with Pour for Haiti.

'POUR FOR HAITI" Events included:

‘Molten Metal Pour’ : Foundry Guild Students cast relief sculptures in hot metal : designed by YOU!

Also ‘Spin Art’ and 'Toasted Marshmellows' by Jonas Lindberg + ‘Raffle’ with local prizes from pizzas to tattoos + ‘Silent Art Auction’ + ‘DJ Millhouse’ spinning some tunes!

Silent Auction + Raffle will end at 5 pm

T-Shirts, Food and Beverages available from the Foundry Guild !

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Phil Curran of Alfred Sports Center for the donation of T-shirts

Little Sicily's Pizza

Fox's Pizza

Alfred Hair Care

Alfred Tattoo

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING NEXT YEAR !!

About

The National Casting Center comprises of two comprehensive facilities specializing in Metal and Glass Casting.

Directed by Professor of Sculpture, Coral Lambert in Metals and Associate Professor of Sculpture, Karen Donnellan in Glass.

As a part of the Sculpture Dimensional Studies Division, Sophomore through Graduate Level students can overlap disciplines, concepts and techniques.

Students are encouraged to push their practice into new territories whilst learning about the historical context of materials and process. They study ancient techniques alongside environmental practices and current digital processes. They gain experience in running the facilities providing them with valuable working knowledge upon graduation.

The Foundry comprises of furnaces to melt iron, bronze and aluminum. Processes include Sand Molding, Ceramic Shell, Centrifugal Casting, Wax and Plasticine pattern making. There is an adjoining Metal Fabrication Shop including a walk in sand blaster and patina booth.

The Glass Casting area includes heat recovery glory holes with a full range of state of the art kilns and finishing tools.

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