A mix of students, faculty and community members came to SIU’s Art Foundry Complex on Nov. 8 for the annual Iron Pour. The SIU sculpture program sold personalized scratch blocks that were then transformed into iron art to take home. The Blacksmithing program brought an anvil and other tools to demonstrate the creation of their work.
The event consisted of more than 20 students, faculty from the SIU sculpture and blacksmithing programs and employees from the Memphis Metal Museum. Bob Rogers, who is a part of the Memphis Metal Museum’s Directors Emereti, was at the event displaying the work that students have done. While guiding the smelting process, Rogers mentioned that some of the work the students make, like bookends, are perfect Christmas presents.
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Southern Illinois Printworks also created designs for T-shirts and the ceramic program sold cups. The Iron Pour was followed by a cook-out hosted by the sculpture program, Critical Forum, a sculpture RSO, and the School of Art and Design to end the day’s events.
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