fire arts center of chicago | metal sculpture and design
classes | foundry

All registration for our classes is rolling which means you can join whenever you want and get the same step-by-step personal instruction that we provide to every student.

Bronze Sculpture Casting at the Fire Arts CenterBeginning Foundry | Metal (Bronze) Casting

Instructors: Vincent Hawkins & Michael Bennett
Wednesday 7-10pm and Saturday 3-6pm
$285 for 10 weeks or $400 for 16 weeks

The metal foundry class is designed to familiarize students with the basics of lost wax casting process. Students will learn basic wax casting and working technique, gating and venting, ceramic shell and investment molding techniques. Students will be required to complete at least 3 finished projects to be cast in bronze, iron, aluminum, or copper.

Repetition of this class will provide more advanced foundry education.

Intermediate Foundry | Metal (Bronze) Casting

Instructors: Vincent Hawkins & Michael Bennett
Wednesday 7-10pm and Saturday 3-6pm
$285 for 10 weeks or $400 for 16 weeks

The intermediate metal foundry class is designed to give a basic understanding of foundry procedure and the techniques for doing large scale casting in iron, bronze, aluminum, and copper. The burnout kiln, wax recycling operations, and patination techniques will be covered. Students will participate in iron, bronze, aluminum and copper pours. As before, students will be required to complete at least 3 finished projects cast in bronze.

Advanced Foundry | Metal (Bronze) Casting

Instructor: Vincent Hawkins & Michael Bennett
Wednesday 7-10pm and Saturday 3-6pm
$285 for 10 weeks or $400 for 16 weeks

The advanced metal foundry class will give students a level of mastery over the process of casting art works in bronze, iron, aluminum, and copper. We will cover kiln design and construction, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy and alloying. Students are required to take at least 2 intermediate metal foundry classes before being accepted for enrollment in the advance foundry class.

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Fire Arts Center of Chicago | 1800 W Cornelia Ave | Chicago IL 60657
Tel: 773.544.9908 | Tel: 312.842.2027 | Email: info@firearts.org