“We Build It” Residency
Sand Mold Workshop / 2018
Iron Pour / 2018
During the “We Build It” residency, hosted by the repurposed Banner Tobacco Co. Building in Detroit, MI, Egnater taught a Sand Mold Workshop and organized the Annual Halloween Iron Pour.
Banner Building Collaboration
Aluminum Pour / 2019
Aluminum Pour / 2019
Aluminum Pour / 2019
Photos and Videos by De Peter Yi and Carl Goines
In 2019, Egnater collaborated with De Peter Yi, a Walter B. Sanders Fellow in the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, to create a series of architectural parts or hardware. Yi’s documentation features Egnater’s gas furnace “Ruby Red”, tongs, and shanks she fabricated in 2017-18.
College for Creative Studies
Iron Pour / 2021
Iron Pour / 2021
Iron Pour / 2021
While employed at the College for Creative Studies as a Metal Shop and Foundry Technician, Egnater led the reconstruction of a cupolette and organized the Annual Spring Iron Pour.
Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency
Pewter Casting Workshop / 2022
Pewter Casting Workshop / 2022
In 2022, Egnater taught a Pewter Casting workshop at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency for the Art on the Meadow Series. The workshop covered silicone molds, pewter casting, and finishing techniques.
The 9th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art
International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art Opening Ceremony / 2022
International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art Opening Ceremony / 2022
International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art Opening Ceremony / 2022
International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art Opening Ceremony / 2022
Photos by Sean Smuda
In 2022, Egnater attended the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art hosted in Berlin, Germany. With funding from Alfred University and the Judson Leadership Center, Egnater assisted Coral Penelope Lambert’s Iron Pour performance at the Industriemuseum in Brandenberg, showed work at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (University of Technology and Economics) in Berlin, and built a panel for the conference. The panel, titled Material Pairings: Looking Beyond Dichotomy featured five artists who use cast iron with “other materials”.
The panel addressed moments when cast iron is paired with these “other materials” and the conversation often becomes gendered as hard/soft and masculine/feminine. To move beyond this dichotomy, the panel opened the conversation to ideas such as the contextual nature of iron, queering iron, and the inherent fragility of iron.