This month we are reaching out to our treasured community for support after tropical storm Chantal.
IRON HEROES is a casting program designed by Liberty Arts artist Tripp Jarvis to engage veterans and youth from traditionally underserved communities.
Are you ready to party the night away as we celebrate a major birthday for our beloved Major the Bull – he turns 21 this year!
Avoid the malls and stay safe at home shopping and interacting with us from the comfort of your couch!
From 10 am on December 5th until 6pm on December 6th, our Virtual Holiday Art Fair/Sale will be open with live demos and a great variety of handmade treasures for your one-of-a-kind gifts.
Support a great group of local artists and get to spend some virtual time in some of our studios.
More information to come as we work out the details!
Join us at the foundry for the third n a series of exclusive events that include food, drink, and phase 2.5 approved camaraderie.
Scratch Block workshop, dinner and an aluminum pour!
All for $85
Your ticket includes instruction on how to create a scratch block, dinner at the new Durham Food Hall, and exclusive access to watch molten aluminum poured into the sand scratch block mold you created.
By the end of the event, you will be able to take home your aluminum artwork.
The details:
3pm the event begins at the Foundry.
530 Foster Street, Durham, North Carolina.
It’s the beautiful half-circle metal pavillion under the Durham Central Park Mural, and next to Liberty Warehouse Apartments.
You will have from 3 to 5pm to work on your scratch blocks.
What’s a scratch block? Glad you asked! It’s a 6x6” square block of hardened sand, with a 1/2” deep indentation. You scratch and carve a design, creating a pattern. We then pour molten aluminum into it and about 30 minutes later your aluminum relief tile is ready to take home.
Come with a specific design in mind or just arrive and wing it. We’ve seen both approaches work beautifully. We have all the tools and instruction you’ll need for fun and success.
Tickets include a $20 gift certificate to spend at Durham Food Hall. While you enjoy yourself with dinner from the Food Hall from 5-6pm, we will fire up the furnace. Now you are ready to watch our pour team work their magic with molten metal.
You will have exclusive and rare access to watch this pour!
After we pour the tiles you have created, our artists will pour some larger molds they have created. You are invited to stay and watch the fun!
Are we COVID friendly? Yes!! Your safety and wellbeing are very important to us.
Tickets are limited to 25 people, get yours as soon as possible!
Come with your quarantine family or friends, others will be sitting at least 6’ apart.
Everyone will get their own sanitized set of tools.
Drinks are served in single serving bottles.
Join us at the Foundry and Ignite Your Night with us!
Food/Beverage trucks, fire breathing and drumming all on hand.
Scratchblock Workshops from 10am to 2pm.
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…
