Featuring Panelists Teresa "Tree" Lind and Dan McGuire

“The legacy of iron in education in Southern and Eastern Wisconsin stems from the program at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. Dan McGuire who taught and researched there from 1998 until 2016 invited professors and students studying sculpture from all over the state of Wisconsin to join him for iron pours at UWW.

Laboring in sculpture and other various intense projects through the years eventually took a toll on McGuire’s body. He started to research innovative ways to work with foundry materials and invented some processes that changed the way the industry thinks and works today. In his retirement, McGuire is developing a foundry in which he, now disabled, can effectively continue to cast iron and make art. This video presentation and series of interviews takes us on a tour through this journey and what can be accomplished through intelligence, will, and spirit. Teresa Lind will introduce the video and be available for questions following.”