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Detail from Willy Lefkowitz and Martin Grünpeter constructing a foundry, Werkdorp Niewuwesluis, c.1938
Willy Lefkowitz was arrested when the Werkdorp was closed by the Nazis in 1941. Along with the majority of the remaining inhabitants, he was sent to the Westerbork Transit Camp in North-Eastern Netherlands, a site where Jews and Roma were assembled prior to their deportation to extermination camps in the East. Of the 107,000 people who passed through Westerbork only 5,200 survived, including Lefkowitz, who emmigrated to the United States. Martin Grünpeter (b. 1914, Germany), survived World War II and immigrated to Palestine.
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Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
(October 2018 - February 2019)
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered is the first UK retrospective of Russian born American photographer, Roman Vishniac (1897–1990).
An extraordinarily versatile and innovative photographer, Vishniac is best known for having created one of the most widely recognised and reproduced photographic records of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the two World Wars. Featuring many of his most iconic works, this comprehensive exhibition further introduces recently discovered and lesser-known chapters of his photographic career from the early 1920s to the late 1970s. The cross-venue exhibition presents radically diverse bodies of work and positions Vishniac as one of the most important social documentary photographers of the 20th century whose work also sits within a broader tradition of 1930s modernist photography.
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Linking community, culture and commerce towards building the profile and economy of the Bundaberg Region through the arts. Creative Regions is partnering with Queensland Writers’ Centre, Bundaberg Fruit and Vegetable Growers, the Bundaberg and District Chamber of Commerce, Bundaberg Regional Council and DEEDI through the ‘BUNDY PRIDE’ brand in working with food producers to promote agriculture in the Bundaberg Region through an online portal called THE FOUNDRY. This project puts artists at the nexus between industry and community creating online digital product that can be used to promote the arts and to support industry and regional development
Established in 1873 by Samuel Knight to construct and maintain the heavy machinery necessary for mining and timber in Gold Country, Knight's Foundry is the last foundry and machine shop powered by water. He developed an early water-powered turbine, using a nozzle that shot water off-center from the collecting cups so as to allow some of the kinetic energy from the splashing water to be converted to work, that is turning the heavy machinery that were necessary for the shops. By the 1890s the foundry was quite successful, among other things creating the very Knight Wheels that ran the company, some of which ran the first hydroelectric plants in the nation.
In 1883, Lester Pelton's competing wheel beat Knight's wheel in a competition, eventually becoming the industry standard. Samuel Knight soldiered on, creating other equipment, including the Knight Dredger Pumps used to dredge up silt on the Pacific seaboard. Knight died in 1913, and gave the property to his employees, who ran it as a machine shop for producing specialty parts (much of the work at the foundry remained run by hand). Among other things, the Foundry produced the iron work for the California State Capitol.
The last owner-employee passed in 1970 and the property went to a former customer, who ran the place until 1996, when his retirement and an economic downtown finally closed the plant. The foundry ran as a museum for a brief period, but finally shut down over high liability costs. It was reopened in 2016 as a museum.
Sutter Creek, California
Battle of minds....goin out to SEE on his birthday. THOUGHT you might like it, remember the one on my bedroom wall when I was about 14? www.vimeo.com/clip:159851 for timelapse
On October 20, 2013, Brooks members visited the Lugar Foundry in Arlington, TN–a remarkable combination of studios, workshops, and sculpture garden. Here they learned about lost-wax casting, wandered through an enchanting grove of bamboo, and to met the talented Lugar family.
A shop run by a steelworking family in Bangkok's Chinatown. I want one of the big woks, but they are very expensive. They also make coffee roasting machines.
Trails down to the foundry ruins can be accessed at the intersection of 9D, Chestnut Street, and Bank Street. There is a small parking area on Bank, and you can make your way under the 9D bridge. Or you can cross over 9D to Chestnut and go down on the blue-blazed marked trail.
This is the last of the photos from our Newburgh/Cold Spring day trip.
Andy Reed MP Visit to new owners of Taylors Bell DFoundry
Andy Reed MP Visit to new owners of Taylors Bell DFoundry
Andy Reed MP Visit to new owners of Taylors Bell DFoundry
Andy Reed MP Visit to new owners of Taylors Bell DFoundry
City of Lincoln manhole cover showing the Nebraska state capitol building dated 2003 forged by Deeter Foundary, Inc.