The Iron Pour Meltdown was started in 2007 by Coral Penelope Lambert, associate professor of sculpture in the Alfred University School of Art and Design. The annual event attracts faculty, students and artists from around the country, many of whom do not have access to a means of making cast iron sculpture on such a large scale.
This year’s event, sponsored by the School of Art and Design Graduate Program, will be held from noon until dusk. Art and Design students will assist Lambert in running the foundry’s 10-foot-tall iron furnace, which can melt 600 pounds of iron every 20 minutes.
