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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting -February 3, 2006 <br />4. COMMUNICATIONS <br />() continued... <br />Universities & Schools <br />Ivy Tech, Bethel, and Indiana University South <br />Bend have brought faculty, sculpture classes, arts <br />appreciation, ceramics, and general culture <br />classes to tour our facility and speak with some of <br />the artists. Hebrew Day School brought 45 <br />children to see artists' demonstrations and hear <br />about what we do at Fire Arts. <br />The ILISB ceramics class used our facility to do <br />raku firing, a facility they lack, and Ivy Tech <br />would like to use our foundry facility for a <br />sculpture class. <br />Museum Docents <br />Docents from the Midwest Museum of American <br />Art in Elkhart have come for a lecture tour. <br />The Common Man <br />Meanwhile, several hundred, perhaps a thousand <br />people have toured Fire Arts during our public <br />events or Tuesday Tours and learned about <br />making sculpture and pottery. These have <br />included adults and families. <br />Fire Arts Serves Area Artists <br />A Well-Equipped Place to Work <br />Area artists now have a large building in which <br />to work and a large variety of equiprnent~ <br />equipment that no one person could afford to own <br />by themselves. This space enabled local artists <br />Tuck Langland and David Blodgett to do huge <br />national commissions that would not have fit in <br />their other studios. Tuck's 12'high sculptures <br />needed the height, and the Blodgetts' 130'rnural <br />needed the wall space and large central working <br />area. There are currently twenty artists working <br />10 <br />