Sculpture: Foundry
Things are lighting up at the foundry
9 am-8 pm Monday-Thursday, Friday 9 am-5 pm, and 12 pm-8 pm on Sundays
Shaklee Building
Oakland Campus
As of 9/30/21, Access hours for the Metal Shop, Wood Shop, Foundry, Maker's Library are 9 am-8 pm Monday-Thursday, Friday 9 am-5 pm, and 12 pm-8 pm on Sundays.
About the Sculpture: Foundry
CCA is one of the few remaining art colleges in the United States that continues to operate a traditional foundry for casting bronze, aluminum, iron, pewter, and other metals
Our facility features 90- and 60-pound capacity furnaces, large and small burn-out kilns, numerous wax-working stations, a sandblaster, patina torch, and a one-ton overhead swivel crane.
Specializing in These Materials
- Metal
Tools and Equipment
- Two speedy melt furnaces (90# and 60# capacity)
- Two gas fired burn out kilns (10cu ft, 700 cu ft kiln)
- wax working area
- sand blaster
- patina station
- ceramic shell station
- wax boil out extraction station
ORIENTATION DATES
Various events in our shops such as orientations, holidays, and demonstrations will be posted in this calendar.