glass casting with Noel Maghathe
Through collaboration with Cincinnati artist Noel Maghethe, and support from Artswave and the Ohio Arts Council, Jamie life casted two cactuses in his favorite medium, glass. In her multimedia piece Rooted in Land, Maghathe projects images from her father's homeland in Palestine onto glass castings of Prickly Pear Cactus.
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2024
LIFE CASTING WITH MICHAEL COPPAGE
Fire Lab is part of the creative team bringing artist, Michael Coppage's "12 Commandments" series of bronze statues to life. Jamie did life castings of the artist and made waxes for the lost wax bronze casting process. The first three hyper-realistic sculptures in Coppage's series have appeared at Art Basel in Miami, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Weston Gallery and the Freedom Center. There are nine more sculptures to come in this powerful commentary on police brutality.
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2022-2023
aluminum casting
Fire Lab cast 100 aluminum flowers representing protesters killed in Iran for artist Sheida Soleimani's Armory Show in New York, in partnership with Wave Pool. Welcome Editions immigrant artisans sculpted wax tulips, and Jamie prepared them with gaiting systems and silica sand investment molds. This was the first lost wax casting project completed in the Fire Lab Foundry.
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2023
plaster statues
With a grant from the Ohio Arts Council, Jamie sculpted plaster mascot statues for Gamble Montessori High School's new building, the historic Mother of Mercy in Westwood, Cincinnati.
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2021
