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\nProfessor Coral Lambert’s cast iron stars light up the evening sky. Alfred University Professor of Sculpture Coral Lambert next month will transport her portable iron furnace to Bethlehem, PA for a site-specific iron pour performance.<\/p>\n
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\nProfessor Coral Lambert’s cast iron stars light up the evening sky. Alfred University Professor of Sculpture Coral Lambert next month will transport her portable iron furnace to Bethlehem, PA for a site-specific iron pour performance.<\/p>\n
Lambert will melt and cast hot iron stars in the shape of the city\u2019s \u201cBethlehem Star\u201d in front of the historic steel furnace stacks, now decommissioned. According to Lambert, the casting of the Bethlehem stars will become a story celebrating and reigniting memories of when the historic steel works were in full operation.<\/p>\n
The \u201cStar Factory\u201d producing the stars uses a portable coke-fired iron furnace that melts recycled iron with the assistance of an experienced crew including several students from the National Casting Center Foundry at Alfred University\u2019s School of Art & Design. Digital artist pioneer Paul Higham will complement the performance with a composition of electronic industrial sounds sampled from the environment.<\/p>\n
The performance is scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday, March 15 at the Historic SteelStacks in Bethlehem, 101 Founders Way. The spectacle is open to the public to view at no charge.<\/p>\n
Beginning at dusk, iron casters will parade the stars along the lawn in front of the stacks and place them in premade stands, much like setting a flagpole. Still glowing red, they will slowly fade as the sound composition plays and the molten iron is poured. About 40 stars will be poured over a one-hour period.<\/p>\n
Lambert\u2019s original \u201cStarry Starry Night\u201d was performed at Salem Art Works as part of a series of molten iron and fire performance works that she has been developing in tandem with sound produced by Higham over the past 30 years. Projects have included \u201cThe Seeping Furnace,\u201d performed in Franconia, MN; \u201cVolcano Furnace,\u201d performed in Latvia; \u201cDiamonds,\u201d\u00a0 in Basel, Switzerland; \u201cFerrous Bloom,\u201d NY, \u00a0\u201cFlowers of Elysium\u201d and Garden of Fiery Delights\u201d, in Berlin\u2019s Brandenburgh Industrial Museum and most recently \u00a0\u201cFerrum Lux\u201d performed at the Historic Carrie Furnaces in Pittsburgh, PA in 2023 as part of the Festival of Combustion.<\/p>\n
Each of these performances have been site- and time-specific, resulting in cast iron sculpture that is exhibited later. Lambert extends her thanks to ArtsQuest, PA; The Borgenicht Foundation; and The City of Bethlehem for their support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professor Coral Lambert’s cast iron stars light up the evening sky. Alfred University Professor of Sculpture Coral Lambert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-122564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}