Demonstrations will be based on the topic of the conference as well as areas of interest as expressed by the sculptural iron community. These will include a focus on historic, cultural  and current technology as well as demonstrations relevant to aesthetics, explorations of ritual in cast iron art, and applications of cast iron  art within natural and land-based art forms.

Tatara Demonstration
Wayne Portratz – Professor of Sculpture and Foundry, University of Minnesota – potra001/at/umn/dot/edu

Sodium Silicate Sand Molding with CO2
Harvey Hood – Director, Berllanderi Sculpture Workshop, Professor Emeritus, University of Wales Institute at Cardiff, UK

Ancient Dung-Molding Process
Rebecca Flis – Advanced Sculpture Student, Alfred University, USA

Drawn Through Time: Ore to Bloom
Charlotte Law – Sculpture Student, UK

Elena Lourenco – Chair of Demonstrations
Elena Lourenco is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Buffalo State College, New York, USA where she teaches the aesthetic possibilities and processes of iron casting.