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Bruce Fink
90 Pole Bridge Rd
Woodstock CT 06281
US

There are quite a few web contacting sculptor's on the Artmetal Sandbox and Artmetal.com lists and this will be the second time it has been held.
Many of them know each other via the email and share pictures, questions and comments on their endeavors on a regular basis. It is open to all and has become very much a family sort of community spread world wide.

This year the Sculptor's Shindig 2006 will be held in Woodstock, CT at the studio on the grounds of the home of Bruce and Charlene Fink and will be attended by many of his family as well. All his 3 kids are also artists in their own rights. The homemade home and studio is located on a dead end dirt road in the woods where he has lived since 1968 and includes in many crude but functional ways the equipment to fabricate, cut, bend, roll, weld via MAPP/Oxy gas , AC / DC/ synchrowave heli-arc, Plasma cut, hammer, beat, conjoul, many metals as well as a complete foundry system set up for bronze and aluminum casting done mostly in plaster based investments and with a kiln to burnout and prepare the lost wax or sand mold castings. It is a one man arranged studio so usually only functions in a few of the media at one time so outdoor studio space will be used for much of this Shindig. In the foundry area he normally pours up to 300 lb. bronze per melt so works in sizes from several feet high to several stories and sells internationally.

The entire Shindig is composed of many with extensive backgrounds getting together to share their experiences and trade personal media systems oft not found in any books of professionally.

An old CHAT pertaining to the artists foundry/studio along with many photos of the studio taken several years back, can still be found on the web at:
www.artmetal.com/village/chat/main/transcp/980129MN.htm
and also at a very outdated web site at
www.artmetal.com/bpfink