A student adds a bar of cast aluminum to the department’s Speedy-Melt furnace in the Hulsey sculpture courtyard. Aluminum ...

As far as making liquid metal, [Ben] used a cast iron pot with a convenient pour spout, and a blowtorch. He added graphite powder to the molds in an effort to make them give up the goods more easily.

Using forms of metal working from carving cuttle fish bone molds to pouring hot metal into rubber casts provides a better understanding of how things are formed and what the different states of ...