Directory of North American art casters.Directory of North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Art Casters The following listing has been compiled to identify a unique group of foundries who skills give ageless beauty to the work of sculptors' hands. Using timeless crafts, they transform art and ideas into objects of great beauty and durability. Through the medium of cast metal, both artists and foundrymen enrich our lives and a world ever needful need·ful adj. Necessary; required. See Synonyms at indispensable. need  ful·ly adv. of their wonderful magic. Any art casting foundry not listed here is invited to submit its name and address to modern casting and a 50-word description of its services for inclusion in a supplement to this list to be published later. American Art American art, the art of the North American colonies and of the United States. There are separate articles on American architecture, North American Native art, pre-Columbian art and architecture, Mexican art and architecture, Spanish colonial art and architecture, Foundry 2520 Ontario St Burbank, CA 91504 818/848-7593 Art Castings of Colorado 511 8th St, SE Loveland, CO 80537 303/667-1114 Largest art foundry in the Midwest producing quality castings using the lost wax process. Ceramic shell to cast sculptures in bronze or stainless steel. Size range from small, delicate pieces to large monuments. Complete service including moldmaking, patinating and enlargements. Brochure available on request. Artcast Inc 14 Armstrong Ave, Georgetown, Ont, Canada L7G 4R9 416/877-5455 Sculptures cast by the lost wax process in bronze and aluminum using ceramic shell. Complete services such as enlarging, moldmaking, patinating and polishing available. No size limitations. Modern facilities, quality assured and delivery time guaranteed. Brochure available on request. Art Foundry Inc 2879 All Trades Rd Santa Fe Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. , NM 87501 505/471-7184 Services offered to artists in two processes: lost wax and sand for bronze, iron, aluminum. Maintain a highly trained staff of artisans to execute the casting needs of each artist. Best In Bronze Inc 2672 Highway 2 E Kalispell, MT 59903 406/752-6635 Quality art bronze castings. Boyce Bronze Casting 5555 Harlan Arvada, CO 80002 303/423-5535 Complete services to the artist working in bronze. Bright Foundry 1621 E Washington St Louisville, KY 40206 502/589-4337 Offers high quality bronze art casting services; Everdur, ceramic shell, resinbonded sand, moldmaking, chasing, patination, restorations and renovations, installation and design referral. Buntin Foundry Inc 91 S Main St Sherborn, MA 01770 508/653-9484 A small lost wax and epoxy mold foundry ideal for low volume castings. Uses latest investment casting investment casting Precision casting for forming metal shapes with minutely precise details. Casting bronze or precious metals typically involves several steps, including forming a mold around the sculptured form; detaching the mold (in two or more sections); coating its technology, including chamber casting of bronze. Coryat Casting Co Inc Rts 9G and 308, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 914/876-2553 As the foundry selected to cast the bronze reproductions of the largest and most prestigious museum in the U.S., we guarantee unexcelled craftsmanship in all phases of enlarging, moldmaking, ceramic shell technology, patination and polishing of bronze casts in weights of less than a pound to over life-size. Craft-Cast Co Inc 2206 W Sherman Rd Jackson, WI 53037 414/677-2280 Pours all grades of ferrous and nonferrous metals. Deggingers' Foundry 436 NW Crane Topeka, KS 66603 913/232-4788 Nonferrous castings of all sizes. Dykeman Art Foundry Inc 8101 E Pecos Prescott Valley, AZ 86314 602/772-7950 A full-service art foundry featuring solid investment molds that produce an excellent casting in Herculoy silicon bronze. Everything Metal Imaginable 401 E Cypress Visalia, CA 93277 209/732-8126 Sculpture, cast in the lost wax bronze method or ceramic shell. Specialize in production casting as well as limited edition sculpture. Complete services: moldmaking, casting, chasing, welding, patination. Excalibur Bronze Sculpture bronze sculpture. Bronze is ideal for casting art works; it flows into all crevices of a mold, thus perfectly reproducing every detail of the most delicately modeled sculpture. It is malleable beneath the graver's tool and admirable for repoussé work. Foundry 85 Adams St Brooklyn, NY 11201 718/522-3330 A full-service ceramic shell art foundry, established in 1968. Fine art, architectural projects, bronze lighting and furniture. Fine Arts Sculpture Centre 4975 Waldon Rd Clarkston, MI 48016 3313/391-3010 The foundry uses the lost wax process, palster investment and three types of sand and shell casting, does bronze repair and restoration, moldmaking, patina patina (păt`ənə), coating of carbonate of copper on articles of copper or bronze, formed after long exposure to a moist atmosphere or burial in the earth. application, casts plaques and monumental-sized sculptures Foundry* Pattern Shop, The 455W 100N, Box 33 Ephraim, VT 84627 801/283-4011 Small investment casting up to 25 lb, spin casting spin casting n. See spinning. spin caster n. , bells up to 1200 lb, plaques and markers, one of a kind or high production. George Foster George Foster may refer to:
Casts everything from small jewelry to over life-sized figures. Has a display of bronze beetles in the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution, research and education center, at Washington, D.C.; founded 1846 under terms of the will of James Smithson of London, who in 1829 bequeathed his fortune to the United States to create an establishment for the "increase and diffusion of collection. Hartbronze Inc 401 S Seventh Lane Milwaukee, WI 53204 414/223-3434 A full-service art foundry offering enlargement, moldmaking, bronze casting, fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. , patina, mounting and restoration services. Specialists in ceramic shell investment casting in silicon bronze; work closely with artists to realize sculptural concepts in metal. Hoka Hey Fine Arts Foundry P O Box 88 Dublin, TX 76446 817/445-2017, 817/445-4886 Serving the needs of sculptors for molding, wax chasing, patinas. Multipatinas a specialty. Capable of small to heroic sized sculptures, including sculpting sculpting Cosmetic surgery The surgical reshaping of a tissue. See Deep tissue sculpting, Facial sculpting. services for corporate bronze works. House Bronze P O Box 4587 Lubbock, TX 79409 805/794-3571 Offering the serious sculptor complete bronze casting services from studio size to heroic works and .999 fine silver castings. Our fine craftsmen produce the highest quality casting, utilizing the contemporary ceramic shell and sand techniques. Services include enlarging, bases of all kinds, complete selection of custom patinas, installation and on-site studio space. Innocast/Execuline 1315 Sixth St Howard Lake
 This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. , MN 55349 612/543-2121 Clean, modern facilities produce only the finest brass, bronze and pewter castings. Complete services from conception to patina. Long or short runs. Personal attention for artists. On-time delivery guaranteed. Recently chosen for presidential castings. National award winner six consecutive years. Johnson Atelier 60 Ward Ave Ext Mercerville, NJ 08619 609/890-7777 Castings in bronze, aluminum, ductile ductile /duc·tile/ (duk´til) susceptible of being drawn out without breaking. duc·tile adj. Easily molded or shaped. ductile susceptible of being drawn out without breaking. iron and copper using ceramic shell and urethane urethane (yoor´ithān´), n ethyl carbamate used as an anesthetic agent for laboratory animals, formerly used as a hypnotic in humans. resin bonded sand molds. Kasson's Castings 201 E St Elmo Rd Austin, TX 78745 512/447-1988 Specializes in large (life-sized and monumental) bronze castings. Kay Lynn Studios 40 Stow St Concord, MA 01742 508/371-1036 Primarily lost wax process and some interesting variations of it. Ed Kasprowicz 31 Arden Park Detroit, MI 4820 313/873-0083 Art foundry and sculptor. Lee West Studio 2855 W 8th Ave Denver, CO 80204 303/623-4407 Quality fine art bronze casting, moldmaking, casting, fabrication. Specializing in rough cast, welded sculptures for artists who prefer to do their own finish work. Capable of casting monuments up to 12 feet. Loveland Sculpture Works 161 S Madison Loveland, CO 80537 303/667-0991 A full-service art foundry casting bronze sculpture by lost wax process. Custom services include moldmaking, wax pour and chase, casting, metal chase, patina and basing. Specialists in the casting, finishing and installation of monumental sculpture. Maiden Foundry, The 16600 S E 362nd Sandy, OR 97055 503/668-8097, 800/422-8852 Enlargements, moldmaking, patinas; lost wax investment casting; bronze, stainless steel stainless steel: see steel. stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. , fine silver, aluminum and gold; specialists in monuments, assembly; precious metals Precious Metals Valuable metals such as gold, iridium, palladium, platinum, and silver. Notes: Investing in precious metals can be done either by purchasing the physical asset, or by purchasing futures contracts for the particular metal. . McKiernan Fine Art Bronze Foundry 1133 E 8th St Port Angeles Port Angeles (ăn`jələs), city (1990 pop. 17,710), seat of Clallam co., NW Wash., on Juan de Fuca Strait opposite Victoria, British Columbia; inc. 1890. , WA 98362 206/452-3400 Twenty-five years' experience of bronze casting in green sand, solid investment, lost wax and ceramic shell casting. Expert in small bronze foundry design and in solid investment, lost wax bronze technique. Minnesota Sculpture Foundry, Univ of Dept of Studio Arts 208 Art Bldg 216 21st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455 612/625-8096 Aluminum, copper-based alloys, gray iron. Lost wax from standard investment, ceramic shell, wax melt-out from nobake sand, green sand, pieced molding with nobake and sodium silicate sodium silicate, any one of several compounds containing sodium oxide, Na2O, and silica, Si2O, or a mixture of sodium silicates. Sodium orthosilicate is Na4SiO4 (or 2Na2O·SiO2); sodium binders. Not a production shop. For qualified artists with unique projects which fit educational mission. Access fee and personal health insurance required. Contact Prof. Wayne Potratz Modern Art Foundry 18-70 41st St Astoria, NY 11105 718/728-2030 Founded 1932. Use lost wax process, investment and ceramic shell. Capable of 1800 lb per pour. Enlarging, repairs, restoration and consultant work. Robert Mortenson Foundry 2553 Westlake Ave N Seattle, WA 98109 206/283-6009 Established in 1976, Mortenson Foundry makes lost wax investment castings, (solid mold with ceramic shell face coating) from a few inches to over life-size, in aluminum and bronze, sand castings (green, [CO sub.2] and cold set), flexible rubber molds, TIG n. 1. A game among children. See Tag. 2. A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment. welding. Specialty: public outdoor projects. MST See micro systems technology. Bronze Ltd 101 Freshway Dr, Unit 52 Concord, Ont, Canada L4K 1R9 416/738-5243 High quality castings using ceramic shell method. French, green and chemically bonded sands. Full foundry services available; flexible molds, pattern making, chasing and patination. Castings in all sizes. Experience: from jewelry sized to monumental castings. New Jersey Art Foundry 433 Tonnele Ave Jersey City, NJ 07306 201/653-0770 A fourth-generation art foundry in continuous business since 1900. It casts nonferrous metals, aluminum, silver, nickel silver using French sand molds. Specialties include antique reproductions, architectural work, custom art sculpture. North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. at Greensboro Art Dept, Univ of Greensboro, NC 27412 919/334-5571 The UNCG UNCG University of North Carolina at Greensboro foundry is a teaching foundry with one of the largest facilities in the Southeast. Bronze, aluminum, iron, ceramic shell, bonded sand, [CO sub.2] sand, and traditional plaster investmetn casting. We offer a complete curriculum in sculpture including modeling, moldmaking and metalcasting. Contact: Carl Billingsley. Quality Investment Castings Inc PO Box 100 Blandon, PA 19510-0100 215/926-2626 QIC (Quarter Inch Cartridge) A magnetic tape technology introduced in the early 1980s that has been widely used for backup. It was the first popular tape format for PCs. was founded in 1981 and currently operates a modern 25,000 sq ft plant. It specializes in stainless steel and bronze investment castings. Renaissance Art Foundry Box 616, Ivorytown, CT 06442 Robinson Iron Robinson Rd Alexander City, AL 35010 205/329-8486 Specialty is the reproduction or restoration of authentic art and architectural designs in bronze, iron or aluminum. Custom capabilities include casting, engineering and installation of art using original concept drawings, patterns or sculptured work. Offers a broad application of custom casting and foundry skills to any cast metal project. Schaeffer Art Bronze Casting 132 S. Collins Arlington, TX 76010 817/460-1102 We specialize in custom bronze casting for artists. We do everything from making rubber molds to supplying the artist with a customer-ready finished bronze piece. We cast all sizes from jewelry to larger than life larg·er than life adj. Very impressive or imposing: "This is a person of surpassing integrity; a man of the utmost sincerity; somewhat larger than life" Joyce Carol Oates. size. Scott Metals 2029 N German Church Rd Indianapolis, IN 46229 317/894-3915 A full-service art foundry pouring ferrous and nonferrous metals, offering the latest ceramic shell molding equipment, resin bonded sand molding, engineering, enlargements; able to pour up to 600 lb of bronze or 130 lb of stainless steel per casting. Sculptors Foundry, The Univ of Iowa Iowa City Iowa City, city (1990 pop. 59,738), seat of Johnson co., E Iowa, on both sides of the Iowa River; founded 1839 as the capital of Iowa Territory, inc. 1853. Among its manufactures are foam rubber, animal feed, paper, and food products. The city is the seat of the Univ. , IA 52242 Fine art casting in bronze and iron alloys, zinc, aluminum. Core processes, lost wax, expendable pattern casting, ceramic shell, ceramic molds and combination molds. Cupola cupola /cu·po·la/ (koo´pah-lah) cupula. cu·po·la n. A cup-shaped or domelike structure. cupola cupula. and gasfired crucible furnaces. Contact. Prof. Julius Schmidt. Shidoni P O Box 250, Tesuque, NM 87574 505/988-8001 Lost wax casting, sandcasting, moldmaking, enlarging/reducing, fabrication, repair and patina. Established in 1971 by Tommy Hicks Hicks , Edward 1780-1849. American painter of primitive works, notably The Peaceable Kingdom, of which nearly 100 versions exist. as a two-man foundry, Shidoni has evolved into a world-class casting facility and art showplace. For the artist in search of the finest casting services or the fine art collector: come to Shidoni. Smith Foundry Co 1855 E 28th St, Minneapolis, MN 55407 612/729-9395 Selah Selah (sē`lə), obscure Hebrew word occurring many times in Psalms and in Habakkuk. Its derivation is unknown. It may be a musical notation signifying a pause or the end of a phrase. Studio Box 107 Bell Buckle, TN 37020 615/389-6028 Somerset Sculpture Foundry 2355 Co Rd I Somerset, WI 54025 715/247-3200 Small foundry offering artists custom bronze casting services for over 20 years. "Blak-tufy" and plaster piece molds, lost wax casting in solid investment, "Everdur" bronze, TIG welding and patina. Cast many life-sized figures. Southern Illinois Univ Art Foundry Dept/Art & Design Carbondale, IL 62901 618/453-2029 Can cast bronze, aluminum and gray iron with traditional investment, ceramic shell and resin bonded sand investment techniques. Maximum pouring capacity, 1000 lb. Specialize in unique, life-size and smaller pieces. Southern Ohio Bronze 11700 River Rd Athens, OH 45701 614/797-4040 We can supply lost wax bronze castings completely finished or as rough castings for the artist to finish as desired. No size limits. Other services include rubber or plaster molds from almost any material, repair and refinishing Refinishing in woodworking and decorative arts means fixing or redoing the finishing paint, varnish or other top coating of an object, from resanding to new paint and new varnish. The artisan or restorer is traditionally aiming for an improved or restored and renewed finish. , heli arc welding, some fabrication. Our 15th year. J. C. Steele & Sons P O Box 951 Statesville, NC 28677 704/872-3681 Studio West Ltd 205 2nd Ave Alberta, Canada TOL OWO 403/932-2611 Twenty-one years artists and collectors. Western Canada's most complete sculpture services, enlarging, lost wax bronze casting using ceramic shell, finishing and patina. Limited editions from miniature to heroic size. Outdoor public bronze statues at 26 locations in Canada and the U.S. Foundry and art gallery open to the public. Tallix 175 Fishkill Ave Beacon, NY 12508 914/838-1111 Design, engineering, mold shop, machining, coloring (patina, paint, anodize an·o·dize tr.v. an·o·dized, an·o·diz·ing, an·o·diz·es To coat (a metallic surface) electrolytically with a protective or decorative oxide. [anod(e) + -ize. , enamel, plate or metallize Met´al`lize v. t. 1. To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal. [ imp. & p. p. os> r>; p. pr. & vb. n. os> r>.] Verb 1. ), enlarging, reduction, fabrication, restoration, installation. Cast bronze, brass, stainless, carbon steel, aluminum, silver, gold cast in lost wax or sand. Tucumcari Area Vocational School 824 W Hines Tucumcari, NM 88401 505/461-4413 Encourages hands-on experience in all aspects of producing fine art bronze sculpture and foundry production. Courses offered include modeling in clay or wax, moldmaking, chasing, ceramic shell, casting, assembly, welding, patination and basing. Twin City Technical Castings Inc 750 Pelham Noun 1. Pelham - a bit with a bar mouthpiece that is designed to combine a curb and snaffle bit - piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding; "the horse was not accustomed to a bit" Blvd St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery , MN 55114 612/645-9126 Valley Bronze Inc 307 W Alder alder (ôl`dər), name for deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Alnus of the family Betulaceae (birch family), widely distributed, especially in mountainous and moist areas of the north temperate zone and in the Andes. St Joseph, OR 97846 503/423-7551 Featuring lost wax casting, point up enlargements, over 50 different patina finishes, basing, engineering and installation, crating and shipping. Display showroom. Walla Walla Walla Walla (wŏl`ə wŏl`ə), city (1990 pop. 26,478), seat of Walla Walla co., SE Wash., at the junction of the Walla Walla River and Mill Creek, near the Oregon line; inc. 1862. Foundry 405 Woodland Ave Walla Walla, WA 99362 509/522-2114 The foundry specializes in casting contemporary fine art using the lost wax investment process. In business since 1980, it casts silicon bronze Noun 1. silicon bronze - a bronze with 2-3% silicon that is resistant to corrosion bronze - an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin , aluminum and silver. Contact: Mark Anderson, general manager, or Teri Jacques, assistant manager. Ward Sculptural Arts 195 Hickory Hickory, city, United States Hickory, city (1990 pop. 28,301), Burke and Catawba counties, W N.C., at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mts.; inc. 1870. It is a processing and trade center for an abundant agricultural region (grain, soybeans, poultry, hogs, Springs Industrial Dr Compton, GA 30114 404/345-7353 Weston 701 Airport Rd, Santa Fe, NM White River Foundry 358 S East St Spencer, IN 47460 812/829-6583 A full-service foundry located near Bloomington, it uses the latest in ceramic shell molding technology, and can cast single pieces up to 3 x 4 ft in all nonferrous and precious metals. Offers complete master molding, finishing, coloring, patination and erection. Capabilities include welding and fine woodworking, creation of custom sculpture to order for individuals and corporations. |
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