2020 Hot Metal Artist & Hot Metal Intern Artist Residency

Application Details to be Announced

The Hot Metal Residency Program offers artists and interns the opportunity to experiment with pattern-making and mold-making, exchange ideas and techniques, and exhibit finished work in a highly visible public park. Franconia transforms the outdoor studio into a temporary foundry for four weeks during the summer and through a collaborative effort, the Hot Metal Residency culminates in two pours with furnaces melting approximately 8,000lbs of iron. The first pour helps the pour crew become a cohesive team and produces the iron tile sculptures the public creates during mold-making workshops. The second pour is held a week later and is the time artists pour the molds created while in residence.

Franconia has hosted an annual iron pour since 1996 and the event has grown to become a major public program at the park. The public is invited to participate in relief sculpture workshops to make their own open face sand molds. Participating artists and interns help in pouring over 200 community made open face molds.

Work in a supportive environment where all artists are stimulated, challenged, and rewarded by the process of   creating large-scale sculpture and/or installation.

• Opportunities to experiment with pattern and mold making.
• Space and time to exchange ideas and techniques with other artists.
• The opportunity to exhibit finished work in a highly visible public sculpture park.
• Build lifelong friendships and important professional networks.

Hot Metal Residency Timeline – TBD