4rd Annual Columbus Indiana Iron Pour

Big thank you to Jim Brenner and David Smith with a amazing people from the Foundry who has been most generous with us.

"The Columbus Museum of Art & Design" was Co-Sponsoring our cast iron event and exhibition this year with the Indiana Area Arts Council.

It was great team work with

Artist participating

Aaron Leif Nicholson

Dara Benno Araan Schmidt

Coral Lambert

Felicia Glidden

Kristin Brenner

Jim Brenner

Jeffrey Kalstrom

Bob Pulley

Kevin Dartt

Todd Frahm

Michele Signorino

.....and me

Iron pour....after a week of working

to prepare for it.

I look iPhone different after we use it

to level my sand mold from my sculpture

right before purring the iron in to it.

Iron pour fashion.

This is how our stay in Indiana Columbus started...

in the foundry making sand molds.

Super men working in the foundry.

This men are working really hard ...

This is just a part of all of their molds

they were using for iron casting.

I love metal in any form...look like abstract painting.

Community scratch block workshops.

Exhibition showing art work of the artists

who were part of the iron pour.

Sculpture huggers.

Commemorating Curacao history with commissioned sculpture project.

Sculpture of Papa Godett in bronze.

Commission for a sculpture of Papa Godett.

For this project she had to work with pictures and memories of someone who passed away. “It is always easier to work with a live model. Working with just photo images of a person who is not physically there, can be a challenge. The Godett family was so great about sharing their memories of Papa Godett with me, which enabled me to approach the project from a more personal perspective. It is a way to honor their memory of him.”

Clay begins the transformation into the likeness of Papa Godett.
Details of his facial features come to life as the piece progresses.

I was inspired by historic photographic images and stories told to her by the Godett family.

The finished clay form is completed with the addition of the glasses and hat he was so well known for wearing.

Family members who commissioned the sculpture of Papa Godett gather to approve the clay before the casting process begins.

The clay form begins it's transformation to bronze when a plaster form is created, making a mold of the sculpture.