Winston-Salem’s annual Industry Hill Block Party is back at Mixxer Makerspace this weekend. It will feature live outdoor music, family fun, games, arts and crafts, food trucks, and iron casting.
Night of Fire begins at sundown. That’s when a team of cast iron artists from across the southeast will don their leathers to operate a huge, on-site furnace under the stars and open to the public. Working together, they’ll pour liquid metal into dozens of molds hand-carved out of wax by community members hoping to reveal their inner artist.
Mixxer founder Alan Shelton says it takes several artisans and lots of careful collaboration to control each filled container splashing around at 3,000…
