Aspiring blacksmiths, welders and more get ‘taste’ of metal arts
Caroline Guild learns how to weld during the National Ornamental Metal Museum's A Day of Tasters event Jan. 10 where Memphians can experience what's it's like to work in the foundry. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Melody Springer has been an artist for as long as she can remember, beginning with crayons as a kid at the kitchen table and now, at 75 years old, trying as many different art forms as she can find.
That’s what led her to the National Ornamental Metal Museum on Saturday as part of that institution’s “Taster” classes, meant to do just what the name implies: give folks a taste of different styles of metal art with the hope that they fall in love with it.
All day Saturday, more than 60 people attended the 90-minute classes on enameling, casting, welding and blacksmithing at the museum’s lovely campus on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River near Downtown’s French Fort neighborhood.
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Jody Callahan
Jody Callahan graduated with degrees in journalism and economics from what is now known as the University of Memphis. He has covered news in Memphis for more than 25 years.
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