Fireside Lounge: Creation

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Our next Fireside Lounge leads us to explore creation and how ideas move from concept into creative expression.

Friday, May 10, 2013
6:30-9:30pm
$10 / Free for Crucible members
The Crucible, 1260 7th St, Oakland
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In collaboration with Maker Month, The Crucible celebrates creation with a spectacular evening of art, performance, thoughtful discussion and, of course, fire!

In our studios, we will explore processes that make creation simple. With our distinguished panel we will discuss and demystify how to do-it-yourself, Crucible style, inspiring creativity in everyone. The Crucible student and faculty will showcase creation with the “In Motion” art exhibition. Fire and dance performances will delight guests throughout the evening.

7pm: Panel Discussion

Public art consultant, Leslie Pritchett, will facilitate our May panel discussion in our Performance Studio at 7pm with:

Hopi Breton, Sculpture Artist and Diablo Valley College Professor
Melissa Alexander, Director of Public Programs at San Francisco’s recently relocated Exploratorium
Dale Dougherty, Founder, President and CEO of Make Magazine, the heart and soul of Maker Faire

>> Full Panel Bios

Live industrial art demonstrations:

Foundry – Our foundry department will be doing a live iron pour – an amazing demonstration of molten metal you won’t want to miss!
Kinetics and Electronics
Welding – MIG, TIG, ARC/OXY
Bike Shop – Art Bike Showcase
Machine Shop
Paper & Textiles – Leatherworking, Bookbinding

Exhibit

The Crucible’s art exhibit “In Motion” will showcase remarkable artwork by Crucible artists under the theme of movement.

Performances throughout the night:

Rockabelly – West Oakland-based bellydance fusion group
The Crucible’s Fire Performance faculty and student showcase

Vendors

Own a piece of creation by:

King Bag Company (Bobby Glasser)
Rusty Noodle Studios (Rob Nehring)
Red Frog Designs (Carla Hall)
William Rose
Daniel Stauber

Food truck by Subs on Hubs
Beer by Linden Street Brewery

“Creation” Panel Bios

Facilitator, Leslie Pritchett brings to her public art and community art program consulting more than 20 years experience in corporate marketing, small business and start-up business management. She spent several years as managing partner of Digital Pond, a high-end digital imaging company serving clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies, such as Nike and Hewlett-Packard, to leading museums and fine art print purveyors, including the Ansel Adams Gallery. She entered the nonprofit arena as executive director of the Black Rock Arts Foundation, where over the course of three years she produced or supported more than 28 public

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2013 Fire & Light Soirée and Art Auction Items

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The Bay Area’s top artists working in metal, glass, fire, wood and mixed media have donated fine art for the 2013 Fire & Light Auction. The live art auction will take place during dessert. Have your paddle ready and bid generously — good luck! Your artwork will be packaged and ready for you when you leave for the evening.

>> Download the Auction Program (PDF)

	1. TAKA polished and painted cast bronze $1,150Alexander Smith was born into a family of educators and craftsmen in Berkeley. His early artistic development was thoroughly encouraged by his parents with gifts of tools and space to work. Alex attended the UC Santa Cruz where he earned his BA in Sculpture in 2000. It was here with the challenges of academia he began to formalize his skills in metal casting and fabrication processes to demonstrate his ability in expression and form. Alex has instructed the tradition of bronze casting at The Crucible for twelve years. He is an Apprentice and Project Manager for Sculptor Fletcher Benton, where he enlarges Mr. Benton’s designs to monumental size, supervises building and installation of these works. Alex’s castings, paintings and fabricated works are inspired by his travels, love of form, nature and technology havebeen featured at the Sculpturesite Gallery San Francisco, in public projects in Tucson, Arizona and are currently featured at the Shidoni Gallery in New Mexico. Website: alexanderthesmith.com
	2. SPIKE – THE RESURRECTION cast resin and ABS pipe $9,500Billy Hiebert received his MFA for Sculpture in 1965 from CCAC, now the California College of Arts. After a few years of sculpting with metal, carving marble and teaching sculpture and design, he was attracted to industrial processes involving molding and casting. This soon led to a full-time business that offered model making, molding and casting to both artists and industrial clients. His exposure to new methods and materials soon led to a different direction in his sculpture. Billy left behind welded steel and carved marble and embraced a world of molding and casting. Most of his current sculpture is expressed through molded plastic resin. Website: billyhiebert.com
	3. WALLSCAPE #4 walnut and steel $963Brian Enright likes wood. He really likes metal too. Really he likes the

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2013 Fireside Lounge Schedule

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The Crucible’s Fireside Lounge is an intimate evening of art, industry, community, and entertainment. This exclusive engagement takes place in The Crucible’s studio and highlights our extraordinary art programs. In 2013, The Crucible will explore themes of conception, creation, and curation in three dynamic hour-long discussions during our Fireside Lounge.

The 2013 Fireside Lounge Schedule:

February 15: Conception
May 10: Creation
October 11: Curation

The Fireside Lounge panel discussion provides a forum for fine and industrial artists to engage in and promote contextual conversa- tions. Join us as artists, makers, innovators, dreamers, and creators discuss art, industry, and community. A gallery of remarkable artwork by students and faculty will be on display and live performances are scheduled throughout the night. Admission is $10 at the door and is free for members of The Crucible.

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Fireside Lounge: Conception

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Friday, February 15, 2013 • 6:30-9:30PM
$10 at the door
Free for Crucible Members

Join us for an evening of demonstrations on how materials such as clay, wood, stone, and steel inspire and inform the process of conception. How do fine and industrial artists conceive sculpture? How does conception move into the physicality of art? We will explore materiality and how it shapes an idea.

A gallery of remarkable artwork by students and faculty will be on display and live performances are scheduled throughout the night.

Are you a Crucible artist? Submit your art to the Fireside Lounge gallery.

>> Download Submission Form (doc)

The Crucible’s Fireside Lounge is an intimate evening of art, industry, community, and entertainment that takes place in The Crucible’s studio and highlights our varied art programs. It’s your chance to explore the creative passions of professional artists and the educational opportunities available while sipping libations in our unique atmosphere.

Team Building Blacksmith Immersion Classes in Bay Area Event Highlights:

• Live industrial art demonstrations in featured areas:

• Moldmaking
• Ceramics
• Blacksmithing
• Jewelry
• Stone Working
• Woodworking
• Fire Performance
• Spectacular art show, Raw Material, highlighting work from renowned Crucible faculty
• Fiery stage performances from The Crucible Fire Performance Department Faculty
• Hosted Fire Spin Jam
• Tasty food, wine, and beer
• Exciting discounts on Crucible classes

Event Location & Directions

The Crucible
1260 7th Street
Oakland, CA 94607

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Parking

The Crucible has a very small parking lot on the corner of 7th & Union that will be available for disabled placard parking only. Those spaces are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. There are also two paid parking lots. One is on Kirkham Avenue and the other is the 5th Street lot by BART. Please do not park in lots owned by local businesses or the residential area behind The Crucible.

Public Transit

Ditch the car and don’t worry about parking – The Crucible is easily accessible by BART! From the West Oakland BART Station, exit onto 7th Street, turn right, and walk 2 blocks east to Union (at the 2nd light). The Crucible is on the northwest corner of 7th & Union, at 1260 7th Street.

Beer provided by Linden Street Brewery.

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2012 Fall Fireside Lounge: “Shape / Shift”

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October 12, 2012 * 6:30-9:30pm

Interested in participating? Click here to download the Art Submission Form.

The Crucible’s Fireside Lounge is an intimate evening of art, industry, community and entertainment. This exclusive engagement takes place in The Crucible’s studio and highlights our extraordinary art programs. Explore the creative passions of professional artists and the educational opportunities available while sipping cocktails in our unique atmosphere. A gallery of remarkable artwork by students and faculty will be on display and live performances are scheduled throughout the night. Admission is $10 at the door and is free for members of The Crucible.

As does life, art shapes and shifts. Join us for an evening of makers, innovators, dreamers, and creators, as we celebrate “Shape/Shift.” This evening hosts some of the Bay Area’s most influential makers and artists. Join us as we explore the lines and texture of raw materials and the dynamic processes that shift their natural shape into refined representations of artists’ imaginations. Join us for a riveting lecture on how the shape of art has shifted through time. We will host an industrial art show, fire performances, discounts on Crucible classes and live industrial arts demonstrations.

Event Highlights

Live industrial art demonstrations in eight featured areas
Spectacular art gallery showcasing work from featured areas
Fiery stage performances from The Crucible Fire Performance department faculty & students, and RockaBelly Dance Company
Panel discussion hosted by Randolph Belle with Crucible faculty Barry Baldwin, Stone Carving Artist and Mary White, Glass Artist
Hosted Fire Spin Jam
Tasty food from Fist of Flour Pizza, wine from Periscope Cellars & beer from Linden Street Brewery
Exciting discounts on Crucible classes if you register during the event
And chances to win free tuition for Crucible class!

Featuring Demonstrations In

Ceramics
Fire Performance
Glass Blowing
Glass Flameworking
Moldmaking
Neon & Light
Stone Working
Textiles & Soft Sculpture
Wood

Event Location & Directions

The event will be located at:
The Crucible
1260 7th Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Directions…

Parking

The Crucible has a very small parking lot on the corner of 7th & Union that will be available for disabled placard parking only. Those spaces are available on a first-come, first-serve basis and go quickly. There are also two paid parking lots that will be staffed. One is on Kirkham Avenue and the other is the 5th Street lot by BART. Please do not park in lots owned by local businesses or the residential area behind The Crucible; your car may be towed.

Public Transit

Ditch the car and don’t worry about parking – The Crucible is easily accessible by BART! From the West Oakland BART Station, exit onto 7th Street, turn right and walk 2 blocks east to Union (at the 2nd light). The Crucible is on the northwest corner of 7th & Union, at 1260 7th Street. To plan your BART trip, visit www.bart.gov.

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2012 Fire & Light Soiree Auction Items

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The Bay Area’s top artists working in metal, glass, fire, wood and mixed media have donated fine art for tonights auction. The live art auction will take place during dessert. Be sure to have your paddle ready, and good luck. We’ll have your artwork packaged for you when you leave for the evening.

Click here to download a PDF version of the full auction program.

1. VIDYA RING
Sculpted Jewelry
$500, AndyLifschutz.comAndy Lifschutz is a native Oregonian now residing in New York City. His exploration into metalwork began in Brooklyn with renowned designer Kristin Hanson, where his natural inclination for design and bursting expression finally found its discipline. He then went on to study under William (“Billy”) Thomas King at the Sterling Quest School of Jewelry Design and Creation in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico and graduated in 2008.Andy creates pieces that symbolize the force of the natural world while articulating the balance between old and new. His work ranges from functional adornments to fashionable and thought provoking ornamentation.

2. CORSET FROM “MACHINE: A FIRE OPERA”
Silk, Cotton, Steel
$550, DarkGarden.comAutumn Adamme and her team of over a dozen women design, dream up, cut, sew and otherwise bring into being corsets, gowns, costumes and clothing for all types of special occasions including, but certainly not limited to, Red Carpet celebrity moments, Playa weddings, traditional weddings (and occasionally Crucible performances), as well as lingerie in leather, lace and silk which have been worn all over the US and in Europe.At the forefront of the world’s corset market for over 20 years, using the finest fabrics, Dark Garden’s talented craftspeople built each corset and tailored garment on-site. Based in Hayes Valley since 1997, they have been making the world a curvier, pervier, more beautiful place, one waist at a time.

This auction item was commissioned for The Crucible production MACHINE:

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2012 Soirée Follow-Up

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Fire & Lightning

We’d like to thank everyone involved for being a part of The Crucible’s Fire & Light Soirée and Art Auction. We sincerely hope you enjoyed the evening as much as we did!

As always, our guests arrived in full, fabulous attire. Our main studio space was transformed into a breathtaking performance hall, complete with a gallery of the art up for auction. The night featured amazing performances by Rose Nisker, Omega Recoil and members of Gamelan X and Gamelan Sekar Jaya. These amazing performers, along with thundering fire effects and a 1,000,000 volt Tesla coil, made for a spectacular event.

This year we had 240 guests join us for the evening, and grossed over $130,000! This will assist us in further achieving our mission of arts, industry and community by providing industrial arts education that is accessible to our community.

Without the help of our supporting community we would not have been able to have such a successful evening. This year, The Crucible will serve over 4,000 young students with industrial arts education, and provide over $75,000 in youth scholarships. Our Fire & Light Soirées assist us in raising the necessary funds to achieve our goals, and this year’s event was no exception.

Special thanks again to Grace Street Catering, O’Shaughnessy Winery, Oro Pisco, Periscope Cellars, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Greg Hessel, and Durwood Zedd.

Thanks to Ed Jay Photography / Oakland Magazine for sharing these wonderful photos.

Special thanks to all of the artists who donated their works for the Soiree Art Auction:

Andy Lifschutz
Autumn Adamme
Billy Hiebert
Carla Hall
Daniel Yasmin
Chris Niemer
Cliff Bohm
Cynthia Handel
Damien Jnes
Durwood Zedd
Gabrielle Kuzsel

Greg Hessel
Jennybird Alcantara
Jeremy Scidmore
Joey Gottbrath
Jonathan Hyman
John Lewis
Kevin McElroy
Kier Lugo
Mary Bayard White
Matt Wolpe
Michelle Knox

Nemo Gould
Nicholas DiPhillipo
Peter Kropf
Rob Nehring
Sam Waller
House of Nines Design
Warren
William Rose
Zach Rudolph

The Crucible has some exciting upcoming events. Stay tuned for announcements on Hot Couture this January and Forged: Gamelan 2013 next summer!

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Fireside Lounge: Made In Oakland

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Fireside Lounge Series

“Made In Oakland”

May 11, 2012 * 6:30-9:30pm

The Crucible’s Fireside Lounge is an intimate evening of art, industry, community and entertainment. This exclusive engagement takes place in The Crucible’s studio and highlights our extraordinary art programs. Explore the creative passions of professional artists and the educational opportunities available while sipping cocktails in our unique atmosphere. A gallery of remarkable artwork by students and faculty will be on display and live performances are scheduled throughout the night. Admission is $10 at the door and is free for members of The Crucible.

Join us for an evening of makers, innovators, dreamers, and creators, as we celebrate “Made In Oakland.” This evening hosts some of the Bay Area’s most influential makers and artists. Join us as we illuminate the world of original Oakland artists in this unique presentation and discussion panel of industrial arts collectives and innovators who created movements “Made in Oakland.” We will host an industrial art show, fire performances, discounts on Crucible classes and live industrial arts demonstrations.

We are featuring

Enameling
Hot Wheels
Foundry
Fused Glass
Glass Coldworking
Machine Shop
Fire Performance
Kinetics
Fire Effects
Artists Resources

Please join us for a discussion from 7-8 pm as Executive Director, Steven Young, facilitates a panel of working artists in industrial fine arts and community artists working in Oakland.

Our “Made in Oakland” panel discussion featuring Maurice Cavness, Karen Cusolito, Dorothy Lenehan, Natalie Nadimi, Sean Orlando, Tyrone Stevenson Jr., a.k.a. Scraper Bike King, and other innovators.