About Us
Fahrenheit 2150, a club founded in 1995, promotes the foundry and metal casting arts. The club sponsors a public cupola iron casting event every semester along with field trips, fund-raisers, art shows, and guest artist workshops: It is linked to this Foundry Educational Foundation, a national student organization and accrediting body. The organization increases access to the foundry arts for School of Art students and the broader ASU community, and is designed to provide members with the opportunity to polish their practice while discovering and researching new ways to implement artistic solutions and creative thinking in various career paths, by cross-pollinating the arts with other areas of the university and creative opportunities for a students to develop their artistic practice-- Fahrenheit 2150 promotes both community and innovation, ultimately serving diverse membership. Since 1997, Fahrenheit 2150 annually hosted the ASU Desert Iron Symposium. Every fall and spring, club members collaborate with other southwest regional college students, local industry, and the community to pour thousands of pounds of molten iron from a ten-foot-fall continuously flowing cupola into over a hundred handmade sculptural molds. Additionally, as one of the nation's largest university foundry programs, it should be the goal of ASU and the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts to have the intercollegiate of the Desert Iron Symposium. The immediate benefit is the recruitment of talented undergraduate and graduate students Fahrenheit 2150 takes great pride in the continued integrity of the Desert Iron Symposium. Inviting guest artists to the event serves to educate art students in newer mold making and casting techniques from around the country. Guest artists also enhance local awareness in Fahrenheit 2150 as well as the entire ASU Herberger institute for Design and the Arts. Fahrenheit 2150 Foundry Club is professionally affiliated with the Foundry Educational Foundation, the accrediting and educational arm of the American Foundry Society. The club sponsors annual events and guest artist workshops open to students, alumni, the foundry community and the public. Fahrenheit 2150's efforts to generate Funding: - Donations from local area businesses and foundries (Le. Intel, Arizona Bronze, Arizona Castings, ASM International, Ball Consulting, Camelback Plumbing, M-E Elecmetal, Porter Warner Industries, Refrac Systems, Refractory Insulation and Supply) - Symposium registration fees - T-shirt sales - Scratch mold sales Fahrenheit 2150's additional services to students: - Technological support from the American Foundry Society - Exhibitions - Demonstrations - Foundry skills - Foundry safety at metal pours (gear such as hard hats, Kevlar gloves and protective leather clothing are required to ensure the safety of all participants in the Desert Iron Symposium. It is essential that Fahrenheit 2150 have a full supply of up-to-date and undamaged safety wear to protect the students Involved from injury.) - Mold-making materials fundamental to the casting process (ie: Prime Coat slurry, silica sand, resin, catalysts, flowcast refractory, scrap iron, ladles ind propane).
