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This is a flier I threw together to promote my course offered at Pitt Community College. Its a great class where students learn more than I can fit into a flier such as this. A couple of new things I'm going to try out for the Fall 2014 semester is having sales commission available for the students to earn while at Art Avenue, where they intern for their lab hours. My hope is that this will motivate students to learn and use marketing skills in a very hands-on real world way.

Another new addition will be a "ninja-art-installation kit" that comes with everything from drywall anchors, and a multi-tool to white archival gloves for art handling.

I have some really motivated students this Spring semester and its re-invigorated me to make this course even better.

Tri-State Sculptors Iron Pour in Greensboro

With the help of a couple inches of snow closing down the entire city of Greenville I was able to get into the studio and bust out a sculpture. I went through the whole clay into plaster into wax into sand into iron route....if ya know what I mean. I'm very happy because I went from clay to iron in about a week and a half. This is a very fast turnaround for a cast metal piece of this size....at least for me. 

 Here are some pictures I took at the TriState Sculptors Iron Pour. 

If you are into Sculpture or 3D kinda work, metalworking/ceramics/installation/whatever, you should think about joining and making TriState awesome. Anyways, I took a 350lb sand mold to this pour and ended up with a great casting. 

Jim Gallucci showing sodium silicate sand molding. Check out the ECU crew in the background.

I ended up feeding the furnace and found time to take most of the photos.

That's Trey Martin on the right.

That's my baby. 55lbs of red-hot iron!

Promotion of TriState

Carl Billingsley fire-dancing. 

Carl Billnglsey totally losing his mind as he fervently dances to the IRON GOD.

Iron-Age Re-enactor Carl Billingsley eyes the furnace in anticipation of the liquid gold.

The time is added on the side for when iron is added.

Billingsley's piece.

My casting came out so well, I am happy as a clam.

Skull, myself, and an old man. What does it mean? Regeneration. Death comes for all. We all die. We all live on in the materials of the earth.

Its about 3feet high right now and I plan on mounting it on a 6 foot high sculpture. So it will be a component to an outdoor sculpture. I learned a few things from doing this piece.

• Sculpting in water-clay is faster than oil-clay. 
• Still got the foundry mold-making skillz.
• Iron is an awesome material. 
• Iron Pours, which can be annoying with all the masculine assholes yelling at each other, are a great way to make art via a defined deadline.
• I made a similar sculpture in grad school circa 2010, only very very tiny. I should have been making them all BIG!

I should add more posts to this blog. My new mantra for 2014 is "Make Art Everyday" and I think I've been holding it up fairly well. 

Have a nice day = namaste.

Holiday Art Sale at Jaycee Park

Gvegas Friends!

I want my babies to go to good homes, so beat the rush. I'll have potted succulents, bowls, mugs, and even some steel-work. This Saturday.

Hosted by the City of Greenville’s Recreation & Parks Department.
Held at Jaycee Park Center for Arts & Crafts; 2000 Cedar Lane, Greenville, NC 27858.
Saturday, November 23, 2013 from 10am-4pm.