TECH-529 Foundry I
3 Credits
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TECH-529-01
Friday
2:00 pm – 6:20 pm
Chemistry Building, 306
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TECH-529-02
Friday
2:00 pm – 6:20 pm
Chemistry Building, 306
This course is an intensive, hands-on, exploration of the lost wax foundry process and related technologies. Students are guided through the sequential stages of this foundry process, from concept realization, to the preparation of a casting master, to refectory mold, to metal pour, to finished casting. Participants will follow traditional and contemporary procedures form using hand, electric and pneumatic tools. Participants will actively engaged in this masterful process to produce one finished cast bronze metal sculpture of 3D form.