Residency - Birmingham, Alabama

Sloss Metal Arts

I am honored to be part of the Summer 2024 Visiting Artist Residency and joining fellow Visiting Artist James Hayes and the Sloss Metal Arts crew June-August, 2024! Sloss Furnaces Foundation hosts three, 8-week Visiting Artists throughout the year, in the Summer (June-Aug) and Fall (Sept-Nov).

Sloss Furnaces operates one of the largest iron arts programs in the World, dedicated to iron and bronze casting as an art form which honors the industry upon which Birmingham was built.

“Sloss is currently the only twentieth-century blast furnace in the U.S. being preserved and interpreted as an historic industrial site. The dramatic scale and complexity of the plant’s industrial structure, machines and tools make the Sloss collection a unique contribution to the interpretation of twentieth-century ironmaking technology and presents a remarkable perspective on the era when America grew to world industrial dominance. At the same time, Sloss is an important reminder of the hopes and struggles of the people who worked in the industries that made some men wealthy, and Birmingham the “Magic City.”” - Sloss History