Last week we had a visit from the head of the Bedi-Makky Art Foundry in Brooklyn, to give us a consultation on the dormant kiln at Queens College.   The Bedi-Makky Art Foundry is famous for making the Charging Bull on Wall Street and the Iwo Jima memorial in DC.  They are heavyweights who know a thing or two about casting in bronze.

Seth Aylmer, SPQ MFA student, organized the visit by visiting the foundry several times and pleading with the Mr. Makky to come and help us re-ignite this amazing tool at QC .  Seth is a sculptor who is interested in re-integrating the notion of the hard object and the into this work we call ‘social practice’.  He has been working on an idea for a temporary bronze sculpture for Corona Plaza.

Here is a video of the re-ignition:

And here is some of the bronze work that this man has made that you might recognize: