INDUSTRY FACES States Are Making Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Artist Alisa Toni- nato has been creat- ing castings to cook with since her days as a student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, Wis. “As an art student
learning foundry pro- cesses, I was attracted to the design and utility of old castings, machine parts, and the social opportunities around certain objects in everyday life,” Toni- nato said. So she created the
“Breakfast of Cham- pions,” a series of waffle iron designs portraying historical characters from Jesus to Annie Oakley. Four years after graduating, Toninato pooled her
resources and collaborated with her newly-found casting community in Wisconsin to build her first iron cupola. On Thanksgiving Day 2009, she ran her own cupola for the first time. “We were pretty much just seeing if it melted iron at that point,” Toninato said. “It was not until Valentine’s Day of the following year that I prepared my first pattern and sand mold since college.” It was not until the following summer in 2011 when
Toninato really found a project she could sink her teeth into—the 48 contingent U.S. states as cast iron skillets.
PERSONALS
Matt Aboud, vice president and managing director of Hydro Alu- minum’s Metal Markets in North America, Anthony Farraj, commercial vice president of global packaging for Alcoa Global Rolled Products, and Tom Walpole, senior vice president of Novelis and president of Novelis North America, will join the Aluminum As- sociation’s Board of Directors..
Bob Puhakka has resigned from his position at Alloy Casting to start Cast Differently, a company that will provide training, consulting and project work for metalcasting facilities.
Linda Beckett joined the accounts department at Synchro ERP.
OBITUARIES Walker Hubbard, Sylacauga, Ala.,
a long-time employee of Southern Alloy Corporation, Sylacauga, Ala., died May 8 at the age of 79. Walker melted steel for Eagle Iron & Brass, which became Southern Alloy Corp., for more than 57 years. He worked there until five days before his death.
At the age of 84, Arthur (Gordon) Gledhill, passed away on May 29. Gled-
At the age of 89, Harlen Joseph, Tu-
las, Okla., passed away on May 4. After attending Illinois Wesleyan and Bradley universities, Joseph graduated from Caterpillar Tractor’s Cast Metal School. In 1967, he and his wife partnered with the another couple in expanding their current business and created Canfield & Joseph Inc., Kansas City, Kan. Joseph was a longtime AFS member.
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hill was an AFS life member, beginning his metalcasting career at David Brown’s Foundry, England, in 1927. He retired as President of Miller and Co., Rosement, Ill., in 1993 after 20 years of service.
“Immediately after
we cast the first skillet, we opened it up right after the cup became solid and out rolled this glowing Wisconsin pan,” Toninato said. From there, Toni- nato assembled her first geographic region of state-shaped skillets for a small show at the Layton Galley in the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She cast the entire
Midwest and displayed it pieced together with magnet hangers at a
show at the Harley Davidson Museum, Milwaukee. After she secured funding to cast each state, Toni-
nato found herself on a deadline. She wanted to display the finished product at ArtPrize, an open art contest in Grand Rapids, Mich. So, with one month before the show date in August 2011 and 28 states to go, she turned to a professional metalcasting facility to ensure each state met quality standards. Once complete, “Made in America” was a 9.5 ft. X 6 ft.
functional work of art. Wisconsin has become the most popular skillet with its
hometown advantage, but New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Missouri and California are all close seconds. Texas is popular and huge in every way, weighing in at 30 lbs.
Photo courtesy Rob Tannenbaum/The Martha Stewert Show
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