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 Entries from as far away as Chile, Argentina, Spain and England poured in for the inaugural Lewton-Brain Foldform Award Competition which ended midnight June 30, 2012. Winners are to be announced at the Annual Conference in August. . . . → Read More: Moving the Edge: the Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition Shows Where Foldforming Has Gone in 30 Years The preview of the inaugural Lewton-brain Foldform Award Competition entries will be Friday August 3, with the announcement of winners at the end of the 4-day conference here at the Center for Metal Arts. . . . → Read More: Updates for the Lewton-Brain Conference  Three June weekends with Darren Fisher and his most popular classes in the non-ferrous arts. Three Weekend Sessions, as you like it. . . . → Read More: NEW: June Weekend Sessions on the Nonferrous Metal Arts  Satisfaction rides the curving lines of flat raw sheet steel as it is pulled from the fire and worked into, over, and around forming surfaces in this First Session of Hot Sheet Forming with Vivian Beer. . . . → Read More: Curves and Sinkers along a Hot Sheet  When Vivian Beer set out to form sheet steel into bold expressive forms, she couldn’t find a workshop to teach her the things she wanted to know, so she taught herself. Her resulting body of art furniture work is collectible and evolving. Vivian has built a workshop series around what she has learned about expressive sheet forming, with applications ranging from large scale sculpture to custom auto body work. Building on last winter’s very cool hot sheet class, she is taking her improvisations on creative hot sheet forming to an expanded two-weekend session. Hot Sheet Forming I (January 14-15, 2012) covers the processes of rolling, curving, sinking and raising in sheet. and Creative Sheet Forming II (February 11-12) learn to form and fabricate steel sheet in order to make hollow expressive forms. (Intermediate to Advanced). . . . → Read More: Hot Sheet Forming I and II with Vivian Beer The Fall-Winter 2011-12 Workshop sessions are up, with a mix of new advanced workshops for those of you who have been asking, along with repeats of the popular introductory courses in Basic Blacksmithing and Copper Fold Forming. . . . → Read More: Fall-Winter Session 2011-12 at the Center for Metal Arts  The 4th Annual Conference with Charles Lewton-Brain at the Center for Metal Arts was a packed four-day bustle of process, technique, discussion, and luscious fold form samples coming off the anvil. . . . → Read More: 4th Annual Conference with Charles Lewton-Brain is Info-intensive 4 Days  There are still openings in the 2 days of Fold Form Demonstration and Small Group Conversation with Charles Lewton-Brain, July 21-22, 2011, and we now have one opening for the 2 days Hands-On Seminar. . . . → Read More: July 2011 Fold Form Conference Registration Update  The popular Basics of Blacksmithing class is back–a very satisfying way to spend a summer Saturday, with time for that barbeque or swim in the lake. . . . → Read More: BASIC BLACKSMITHING is Back From snarling, tooth-baring dragons to sleek bronzed horse racing into the wind, the menagerie of grotesques and animal forms from the Yellin collection and from Frederic Crist’s own studio were a delight. For three days, faces and forms grew on the anvil. . . . → Read More: A Grotesque Menagerie |
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