Thursday, November 12, 2009
40 under 40
Hello everyone,
As I mentioned before, I am involved in the SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) club through the Whitman School of Management. I am a part of the Team Guatemala (Team G) section of the club. Team G imports free trade merchandise that is handmade by woman artisans in Guatemala. We give them an opportunity to make a living through their artwork and 100% of the profits is sent right back to the women. This club is very important to me because as a female artist and entrepreneur I have a desire to support and encourage other women in the arts to pursue a career based on their craft. Today, through this club, I got to experience a pretty unique event, the 12th annual 40 under 40 conference. 4o Under 40 is a ceremony honoring the 40 top people under 40 years of age in Greater Syracuse who have excelled and made in impact in the workplace and the community. Team G was given the opportunity to set up a table to sell merchandise and to mingle a bit with the honorees and other guests. It was a great opportunity not only to broaden our market and spread the word about SIFE and Team G but also to meet very successful and influential business men and women. The event is still taking place until 2 pm today so I hope that we are very successful in our sales!
Until next time,
Gitta
As I mentioned before, I am involved in the SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) club through the Whitman School of Management. I am a part of the Team Guatemala (Team G) section of the club. Team G imports free trade merchandise that is handmade by woman artisans in Guatemala. We give them an opportunity to make a living through their artwork and 100% of the profits is sent right back to the women. This club is very important to me because as a female artist and entrepreneur I have a desire to support and encourage other women in the arts to pursue a career based on their craft. Today, through this club, I got to experience a pretty unique event, the 12th annual 40 under 40 conference. 4o Under 40 is a ceremony honoring the 40 top people under 40 years of age in Greater Syracuse who have excelled and made in impact in the workplace and the community. Team G was given the opportunity to set up a table to sell merchandise and to mingle a bit with the honorees and other guests. It was a great opportunity not only to broaden our market and spread the word about SIFE and Team G but also to meet very successful and influential business men and women. The event is still taking place until 2 pm today so I hope that we are very successful in our sales!
Until next time,
Gitta
Monday, November 2, 2009
Iron Pour
Hello All!
Today I would like to take some time to write about a very exciting event that happened a few weeks ago--the Iron Pour. The jewelry and metalsmithing studio has a centrifugal casting machine to cast small scale bronze, silver and gold but casting iron is a horse of a different color!
Last semester sculpture hosted a visiting artist Casey Westbrook and a team of his students from The University of West Georgia who traveled to SU to help us build a furnace for melting iron and carry out our first iron casting. It was the most incredible experience that I have had at SU and so I was eager to participate again. Casey came back for a second time and a few of the West Georgia Crew returned as well. The pour was scheduled for Friday October 2 and the week proceeding was spent making sand molds of the objects were were casting, cracking iron, preparing the charge bags, retouching the furnace, and other various jobs. Due to quantities of rain, most of the pour was held inside the sculpture department; usually iron casting is held outdoors because of the high temperatures. On that night almost 2000 pounds of iron were melted to around 2800 degrees F. (The average casting that happens in the metalsmithing studio is about 1763 degrees F for silver and about 1 oz.)
The second pour around was no less exciting than the first and I am excited to participate again.
Pictures from Nick Arnold!!
Until next time,
Gitta
Today I would like to take some time to write about a very exciting event that happened a few weeks ago--the Iron Pour. The jewelry and metalsmithing studio has a centrifugal casting machine to cast small scale bronze, silver and gold but casting iron is a horse of a different color!
Last semester sculpture hosted a visiting artist Casey Westbrook and a team of his students from The University of West Georgia who traveled to SU to help us build a furnace for melting iron and carry out our first iron casting. It was the most incredible experience that I have had at SU and so I was eager to participate again. Casey came back for a second time and a few of the West Georgia Crew returned as well. The pour was scheduled for Friday October 2 and the week proceeding was spent making sand molds of the objects were were casting, cracking iron, preparing the charge bags, retouching the furnace, and other various jobs. Due to quantities of rain, most of the pour was held inside the sculpture department; usually iron casting is held outdoors because of the high temperatures. On that night almost 2000 pounds of iron were melted to around 2800 degrees F. (The average casting that happens in the metalsmithing studio is about 1763 degrees F for silver and about 1 oz.)
The second pour around was no less exciting than the first and I am excited to participate again.
Pictures from Nick Arnold!!
Until next time,
Gitta
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