
Iron Carnival
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 […]




Vermillion Exhibitions
The 7th Biennial Western Cast Iron Conference will have several exhibitions for you on Thursday evening beginning at 6:30pm. WCIAC Professional and Student Exhibitions– John A. Day Gallery CFA (south hallway) Call For Entry went out this summer and allowed folks from across the country to apply to be a part of this […]

Vermillion Lodging/Directions
Airports to get to Vermillion: Omaha, NE Sioux Falls, SD Sioux City, IA Hotels: Prairie Inn $77 Campground Info..coming soon.

Vermillion Workshops
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 […]
Situational Invitational Host Statement
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 Exhibition Statement by Jodi Lundgren
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 […]