by Festiwal | Jul 18, 2017 | artists, FWT 2017, news
Michał Podleśny will build a woodfired kiln, which will resemble a grotesque figure of a gnome with a metal body hissing and shooting with flames. What is its meaning? For the artist this work is a comment on the level of artistic awareness among our countrymen. The...
by Michał Staszczak | Jul 18, 2017 | artists, FWT 2017, news
This workshop will be prepared by Beata Damian-Speruda, Dagmara Bielecka and Katarzyna Gemborys. The Festival visitors are encouraged to experience the technique of flameworking in which glass softens and it is easily shaped. The authors will present the methods of...
by Festiwal | Jul 18, 2017 | artists, FWT 2017, news
Our special guest, Wayne E. Potratz, is a renowned American artist working in the field of metal casting. His expertise includes Meso-American, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and Western African methodologies, as well as, historical Western metal casting...
by Festiwal | Jul 18, 2017 | artists, FWT 2017, news
This year Wrocław will be the place where masters of glassworking techniques will meet. Ben Wright /USA; Brent Cole /USA; Jiří Pačinek /The Czech Republic; Agâh Barış Can Aksakal /Turkey will be working together to present their techniques of shaping with hot glass....
by Festiwal | Jul 18, 2017 | artists, FWT 2017, news
At the Festival an American artist – David Lobdell will run an exceptional iron pour from the big furnace built in 2007 at the Wrocław Academy. He will be helped by the crew of students and other invited artists. This event is very spectacular and every year it...
by Festiwal | Jul 18, 2017 | artists, FWT 2017, news
A spectacular iron pour from a tilting furnace built at the Wrocław Academy three years ago. It is probably the first furnace of this kind in Europe used for artistic purposes. Cast iron will be poured into the moulds made by artists and sculpture students during the...
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