5th Annual Iron Pour | Saturday, November 14th 2020 | 4-9pm

In Durham Central Park

Food/Beverage trucks, fire breathing and drumming all on hand.

Scratchblock Workshops from 10am to 2pm.

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Workshops will start in September.

Sign-ups for workshops will be available starting in mid-July. Stay tuned!!

In case you’ve never been to our Iron Pour, imagine a gritty ballet of dancers dressed in leathers, boots and helmets. They all have a role. They are all driven by the furnace and the Pour Master who is orchestrating this fiery show where sculptures and scratchblocks are poured.

Once poured, the molten iron darkens and hardens into the beautiful tiles and pieces created by you and local artists.

All will be revealed at the end of the night.

Take a look at more Iron Pour images from past years below…

Iron Heroes | Casting your Iron Mask | March 5 - April 16

Iron Heroes | Casting your Iron Mask | March 5 - April 16

In this 8-session class we will create oil-clay masks based on the heroic qualities we find inside ourselves. We will pack our oil-clay masks in a sand/resin mixture, and travel to FireFest - in Star, North Carolina - to cast our pieces in iron.

This is a hands-on learning journey that takes us through clay sculpting methods; foundry processes for bonded-sand molds; safety and management of a 3,000º blast furnace; and using art to heal ourselves, as well as those around us.

  • The journey begins in Liberty Arts Studios, 918 Pearl Street, where we will sculpt the faces of our inner heroes

  • We then move to our beautiful foundry in Durham Central Park, where we create sand molds of those faces

  • Finally we travel to Star N.C. for the annual FireFest festival; suit-up in leathers; and cast our pieces in molten iron

  • Our final class we return to the studio, trim excess metal from our heroes, and reflect on our journey

Note: Students need to supply their own leather boots for the pour. This class includes all other safety equipment; materials, instruction and supervision in the use of tools; and transportation to and from Liberty Arts for the FireFest festival.

Linocut Valentines! Love it or... not. | February 8th, 2020 | 12-4pm

Whether you love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is coming. We got you.

Carve and print your own valentines, or gal-entines or pal-entines or hate-entines if that’s more your thing, in this short but sweet half-day linocut workshop. You will learn basic techniques for design, transfer, cutting, and hand printing (although in the interest of time we will be using a press for this project-phew!) while creating a set of unique cards to give to your favorite Valentine’s Day lovers or Valentine’s Day haters. And if it makes a difference, there will definitely be chocolate involved. Bring a date, bring a friend! This is a beginning level workshop. Printmaking experience is welcome but totally unnecessary!

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