Iron Carnival Performance, Toby Flores Western Cast Iron Art Conference, 2022 Casting iron can be terribly laborious and stressful. This “performance”, the Iron Carnival will be a reprieve from that toil and instead will be a celebration of the people that make up the iron casting community. There will be no furnaces and […]
Our exhibitions are up and ready for you to apply! Check out: www.callforentry.org Entry Deadline: 8/28/22 The 7th Biennial Western Cast Iron Conference invites you to submit up to five works for our Juried Student /Professional Cast Iron Art Exhibitions. A max of five images includes additional details of a work. These exhibitions take place […]
Airports to get to Vermillion: Omaha, NE Sioux Falls, SD Sioux City, IA Hotels: Prairie Inn $77 Campground Info..coming soon.
To sign up for these workshops please go to: Eventbrite Sand Mold Workshop This workshop welcomes all levels of experience. Participants should arrive with finished pattern and plan on arriving the first day of the workshop. Mold size is limited to 200lbs of sand and no more than 2 parts or 2 parts with a […]
Western Cast Iron Art Alliance 2020 Situational Invitational Exhibition Statement, Christopher Meyer As I write this statement I can’t help but think that we should be coming together for our Western conference next week. I feel like I should be crazy busy with last minutes preparations, arrangements and coordination for the conference. I will admit […]
Situational Invitational indeed! The set of circumstances 2020 has invited us to contend with has proven to be extraordinary beyond belief. Veteran disaster planners had no playbook for the degree of uncertainty presented. Even if anticipated in words like “pandemic,” the novelty of the COVID-19 virus defied any ability to know it before, any ability […]
The Western Cast Iron Art Alliance has postponed the 2020 conference. The Vermillion, South Dakota 7th Biennial WESTERN CAST IRON ART CONFERENCE: Passion and Practice will now take place OCTOBER 6TH – 10TH, 2021. To celebrate studio practice during this time of distancing, and to mark the original conference dates, the WCIAA board members each […]