Metal casting, a visually exciting art event, will take place from 8-10 p.m. in Ford Park.
Metal casting was once thought to be a technically sophisticated process that could only be accomplished in a foundry. Since 1951 artists have been challenging this idea by fabricating their own furnaces, heating metal until molten and casting their own sculptures. The process includes heating metal in furnaces built by the artists out of recycled tumble dryers to 2,800 degrees and then ladling or pouring liquid metal into molds to create sculptures. Many of the sculptures that will be cast during the performance were created by workshop participants. Free!

Colorado Mountain College is offering a multi-day workshop to anyone wishing to learn the art of metal casting, in detail. For more information visit the Colorado Mountain College web site.