On Friday, September 21st and Saturday, September 22nd, graduate students of the Garman Art Conservation Department, under the supervision of faculty members Jonathan Thornton and Aaron Shugar, will conduct an experimental pyrotechnology weekend. Activities will include reproducing an Iron Age smelting furnace, Bronze Age copper melting and casting, ancient glass bead manufacture, and other Iron Age appropriate activities. The furnace will be built on Friday, the smelt will be conducted on Saturday, and the weekend will culminate with the extraction of the iron bloom late Saturday. Activities start at 10am on both days on the lawn next to Campus House and are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the department at (716) 878-5025.
