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FOUNDRY - POUR
The foundry crew is busy making lots of bells for the Christmas season. Despite freezing temperatures they are cheerfully working away. Crew members at the moment are Matt Cornwell, Colin Evans, Guy Flagg, as well as three foundry women, Cabiria Dou... |
Dec 7, 2011 |
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
Not unusual, this past week was a busy one all around. Here are just some of the highlights. Landscaping manager Ron Chandler and his crew worked on re-sanding and re-sealing all of the woodwork in the Colly Soleri Amphitheater. [photo & ... |
Dec 2, 2011 |
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BRONZE STUDIO - SPACE FRAMES
This continues our report from 11/16/2011 with detail photos of this 'Spaceframe'. Cliff Hersted chose a wooden clapper to ring the hollow brass tubes. [photo & text: Sue] More details of this fascinating new line of Cosanti Original... |
Nov 18, 2011 |
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BRONZE STUDIO - SPACE FRAMES
Cliff Hersted, sculptor and foundry staff member responsible for Special Assemblies at Arcosanti, is working on a new line of 'Spaceframes'. Here is one of the frames waiting for a bell ... ... and with a #118 bronze bell attached. [photo... |
Nov 16, 2011 |
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BELL CARVING
A major source of income for Arcosanti is sales of ceramic windbells which are created on site. After the bells are formed, decoration is carved into the surfaces of the bells. On occasion, the skilled ceramics workers teach a bell carving class for... |
Dec 1, 2010 |
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VISITING THE BRONZE FOUNDRY
On Thursday, May 20, 2010, Paolo Soleri visited the bronze bell foundry and the crew assembled a selection of bells for critique. [photo & text: Anita Baker] Paolo stressed that he was not there to impose his views or discipline but did of... |
May 28, 2010 |
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BELL CARVING WORKSHOP
Earlier this month, the Ceramics department hosted a bell-carving session for the new workshop. Participants had the opportunity to learn the processes and techniques taught to employees of the department. [photo: Chihiro Saito & text: Collee... |
Feb 24, 2010 |
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BRONZE FOUNDRY
The foundry crew constructed a set of new furnaces by building a form and using a type of concrete that can handle an intense amount of heat. Here we see the new furnaces surrounded by an old metal plate platform. For each 'Heat' the furnace hea... |
Sep 23, 2009 |
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BRONZE FOUNDRY
We continue our report from 7/30/08 on work in the Bronze Foundry. After the melted bronze is poured into the snap-flask molds, it takes only minutes to cool back to its solid state. At this point, the bells are 'broken' out of their sand molds, gi... |
Aug 1, 2008 |
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BRONZE FOUNDRY
This continues our report from 7/28/08 on the foundry bell creations ... Once the stylus tools have been used to mark designs into the sand, the cope and drag sand blocks are put back together. Now, negative space exists where the aluminum pattern... |
Jul 30, 2008 |
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BRONZE FOUNDRY
Crafting the bronze wind bells is a labor intensive process. Presently the Foundry Apse is workspace for about five artists who shape the sand molds and pour the molten liquid metal to cast Soleri Original bells. Over the next few postings, we wi... |
Jul 28, 2008 |
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CONSTRUCTION - CERAMICS KILN AREA
This morning, on an unusual cloudy and cool day, the construction crew continued work on the block wall around the Ceramic studio kiln area. Part of the crew mixed concrete on the slab above the kiln area moved the mix by shute to waiting wheel bar... |
Jul 11, 2008 |
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CERAMICS BELL-CARVING WORKSHOP
Yesterday the Ceramics Apse was adorned by a few fresh faces. A bell-carving workshop, held by Arcosanti Ceramicists Rebecca Manning and Colleen Reckow, brought out seven curious residents - with a waiting list to accommodate more. [Photo:... |
Jun 4, 2008 |
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CERAMICS STUDIO - SILT BELL CARVING
Revisiting a recent topic, we return to the Ceramics Apse. Finished in 1973, this apse (quarter-of-a-sphere shaped structure) has been home to Arcosanti's ceramic artists ever since. Due to its passive solar architecture features, this workspace i... |
Jun 2, 2008 |
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CERAMICS STUDIO - SILT PRODUCTION
<!-- First Paragraph seperate multiple paragraphs with --!> More on the ceramic bell casting method at Arcosanti: here, the Silt-Cast bells have been removed from the silt counter, and are drying on the deck of the Ceramics Apse. They must reach a... |
May 9, 2008 |
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SILT-CASTING AT ARCOSANTI
<!-- First Paragraph seperate multiple paragraphs with --!> Continuing with our report on the Silt-Cast bell technique from Monday, we follow the bells through to their next stage of creation. Here, you see the bells in an early phase. The mois... |
May 7, 2008 |
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CERAMICS STUDIO - SILT CASTING
As the weather gets warmer, Ceramics Studio staff prepares the silt bed for a pour of silt-cast bells. The silt comes from the Agua Fria river-bed and is pre-moistened and then sifted into a concrete trough. [from left] Ceramics manager Ed Werman... |
May 5, 2008 |
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SOLERI BELL ASSEMBLY -LIGHTING FIXTURE
Foundry Manager, Jim Hornberger puts the finishing touches on a Special Assembly bronze chandelier. The piece, prepared for a client based in Los Angeles, originates from the foundry at Cosanti, where it was likely poured and assembled in the late 1... |
Jan 16, 2008 |
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CONSTRUCTION - NEW VISITORS CENTER ENTRANCE
To continue the report on construction of the new visitors path around the north side of the Crafts III bulding, this sequence is about the small area leading to the Ceramics Apse. The level of the path has been brought up to the new level of the r... |
Mar 21, 2007 |
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FOX 10 NEWS AT ARCOSANTI
On Thursday, 2/22/07, Fox 10 News, KSAZ PHOENIX, visited Arcosanti and broadcast a good five minute segment about the project during their morning news. [Photo & text: sa] Part of this was a life sequence filmed in the Foundry during a bron... |
Feb 23, 2007 |