Iron Pour at Buffalo State College
There will be an iron pour on Tuesday behind Upton Hall at Buffalo State College. It's really cool!! (or really hot depending how you look at it.) If you are looking for something to jump start your heart, this is more than just an event, it's an experience. This is an event where iron will be heated up in a cupola to thousands of degrees and then poured into molds made by art students of Buff State and other visiting colleges. It really is a major event that takes place only a few times a year. Sometimes these pours go on all night. Should be fascinating. Thanks to Mollie Atkinson for the info.
The pour is being supervised by Kenneth Payne, a teacher at Buffalo State College since 1990. Payne was co-director of the Third International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art held in 1998 at the Johnson Atelier, and has served on many panels at sculpture-related conferences and symposia. In recent years this artist has exhibited his sculptures at Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey; the Burchfield Art Center in Buffalo; the New York State Museum in Albany; the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester; and other museums and galleries. A one-person show was given to Payne by East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina in 1995. He is represented in collections in the United States and abroad, including Griffith Muveszet Malom, Szentendre, Hungary; Pedvale Sculpture Park, Pedvale, Latvia; and Tallinn Institute of Art, Tallinn, Estonia.
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