Durham, NC – This year, Durham Mayor Leonardo Williams will kick off an exciting evening of live artmaking, art demos, fire spinning and batala drumming, Poetry Fox, art market vendors and more. Local food trucks and craft beer vendors will provide refreshments throughout the park.
Local artisans contribute a great deal to the overall Iron Pour experience! The 8th Annual Iron Pour includes amazing artists from Liberty Arts and artisans from the surrounding area. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!
Over the next few weeks leading up to the 8th Annual Iron Pour, we are introducing the artists involved with this year’s pour. The first part of this mini-series highlights two master pourers that have participated since the very beginning!
Durham NC - Liberty Arts presents the eighth annual free Iron Pour, a public artmaking event, on Saturday, November 16, in Durham Central Park. A portion of proceeds will go to support Western North Carolina arts organizations through the North Carolina Arts Foundation.
Over a dozen liberty artists and guest vendors will fill our studios with amazing and unique art, wares, and fun gifty stuff to cover pretty much everyone on your list. We’ll have cookies and wine and cookies and beer and cookies and hot cocoa and maybe a nice charcuterie and crudités for the more discerning among you. We hope to see you there!
Join us on October 8
from 12 pm - 5 pm to celebrate the second release of …
THE LIBERATOR
at Durty Bull Brewing Company.
* Fresh Beer!
* Tacos Garcia Food Truck
* Live DJ!
* Scratch blocks!
* Art for Sale!
This event has it all.
Durty Bull in collaboration with The Glass Jug Beer Lab & Full Steam Brewery crafted a Steinbock beer in 2021 to help us celebrate our 20th Anniversary and the Annual Iron Pour; the beer was so popular, they brewed it again!
The Liberator was brewed with burning rocks for extra caramelization.
We hope to see you there!
Join Liberty Arts Alumni Leah Foushee Waller and Michael Waller
Outside on the Rooftop at The Durham Hotel for their presentation of
THE MAKING OF MAJOR THE BULL
Thursday September 8, from 6 - 8:30 pm
Tickets are limited!
Click here to RSVP and purchase your ticket.
All proceeds will support Liberty Arts outreach efforts.
We hope to see you there!
November 5th, 2022
A Liberty Arts Fundraiser
REGISTER HERE
In case you’ve never been to our Iron Pour, imagine a gritty ballet of dancers dressed in leathers, boots and helmets. They all have a role. They are all driven by the furnace and the Pour Master who is orchestrating this fiery show where sculptures and scratch blocks are poured. Once poured, the molten iron darkens and hardens into the beautiful tiles and pieces created by you and local artists.
Liberty Arts Studios & Foundry, Durham Central Park and The Forest at Duke present the 6th Annual public Iron Pour at Durham Central Park Saturday, November 5 from 4-9 p.m. All evening and into the night, 4,000 pounds of molten iron will be poured into molds, in an exciting fiery display creating the iron tiles made by the public and sculptures made by NC artists. Additionally, there will be Liberty Arts artists’ work for sale, Liberty Arts T-shirts, beer glasses and hand-blown glass pumpkins. Come enjoy drumming performances from Batalá Durham, Fire Breathers, kid-friendly events, local food trucks and craft beer while watching this very creative and gritty Durham event.
As always, the Iron Pour is a FREE event. This year, we are asking everyone to register to helps us get an idea of attendance numbers. Thanks for letting us know you are joining.
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES & VENDORS TO BE ANNOUNCED.
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Come take part in the action! We are offering workshops to create your own mold which be filled with molten iron at the event. Scratch block workshops are held at the Watts Hill Pavilion (foundry), 501 Foster Street, next to Mount Merrill playground; you can register for a workshop below.
Saturday, Oct 29, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Sunday, Oct 30, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Saturday, Nov 5, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Take a look at more Iron Pour images from past years below…
Join us for this exciting event! We've teamed up with our partner Josh's Hope Foundation, located on several acres of beautiful land in Northern Durham, to bring you this one-of-a-kind event!
Start your morning with Yoga by the pond with Evie Watts, then carve your own design into a scratch block (sign up links below), or just browse original artwork & handmade goods by Liberty Artists & local artisans, have a drink and a snack and watch Liberty Artists Tripp Jarvis, Mike Waller & Brittany Clark pour molten aluminum into sand molds!
About Josh's Hope Foundation:
Founded in 2010 by Steven & Julie Bailey, Josh's Hope is a unique place, one that provides a safe space for young adults with mental illness through teaching vocational and life skills while also providing therapeutic support. Mental health resource information will be available at the event.
Scratchblock workshop details:
We have only 50 blocks available! Get yours before we sell out!
The first workshop for is scheduled 11:30 am to 1:30 pm, and the first aluminum pour will commence shortly after 1:30 pm.
Link to sign up here:
https://libertyartsnc.corsizio.com/.../62546d2c5660215735...
The second workshop is scheduled 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm.
Link to sign up here:
https://libertyartsnc.corsizio.com/.../62546de1566021ff95...
What’s a scratch block? Glad you asked! It’s a 6x6” square block of hardened sand, with a 1/2” deep indentation. You scratch and carve a design, creating a pattern. We then pour molten aluminum into it and about 30 minutes later your aluminum relief tile is ready to take home.
Come with a specific design in mind or just arrive and wing it; we’ve seen both approaches work beautifully. We have all the tools and instruction you’ll need for fun and success.
Attending the event is free, scratch blocks are $75 each.
** Rain date is June 4th **
Carpooling is encouraged!
Kid friendly event!
Please leave your dogs at home
We hope to see y'all there!
*** *** WE ARE LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL CRAFT VENDORS***
Craft vendor spaces 10x 10 ($40) and 6ft ($25) table options.
To apply, email delorespottery@gmail.com and include:
*4 photos of your work and 1 booth shot
*social media name
*website link
*short description of your work that may be used for promotion
Note: This event will be held outdoors. Some of the ground is uneven. Please bring table risers or adjusters.
A unique Liberty Arts fundraiser - glass blowing and gourmet food- plus, take home a handblown glass flower to celebrate the advent of Spring.
Glass blowing demonstrations by Durham-based designer Elijah Leed. Watch as he makes beautiful hand-blown glass art while you sip wine and feast on a series of small plate foods cooked in the same furnace. The evening will kickoff with a glass of wine and a leisurely tour of the Liberty Arts studio where you can interact with some of our very talented artists and browse the art they create.
This one-of-a-kind fundraising dining event is one you won’t want to miss.
Your chef for the evening will be James Cundiff. James has been cooking in restaurants for over 20 years from the deep south to the Northeast, and is the Executive Chef at the Willard in the AC Hotel, downtown Raleigh. James studied at the Culinary Institute of America and finds inspiration in preparing plant-based dishes.
James has developed a special Mediterranean menu for this "spring-themed", cooking and dining experience. Not all foods cook well at 1500-2000 degrees!
You'll depart the event having had a unique culinary experience, a handmade glass flower to remember it by and be much more knowledgeable about the glassblowing process.
NOTE: For Covid safety, all attendees must be fully vaccinated and boosted and will be asked to show evidence upon entry. We are also limiting the number of tickets for this Feast.
Join us on October 9
from 1 pm - 5 pm to celebrate the release of …
THE LIBERATOR
at Durty Bull Brewing Company.
* Fresh Beer!
* Meatless Grease Food Truck!
* Live DJ!
* Scratch blocks!
* Art for Sale!
This event has it all.
Durty Bull in collaboration with The Glass Jug Beer Lab & Full Steam Brewery crafted a Steinbock beer to help us celebrate our 20th Anniversary and the 5th Annual Iron Pour.
The beer was brewed with burning rocks for extra caramelization.
Sign up to participate in our scratch block workshop from 2 pm - 5 pm.
We hope to see you there!
