Fox Friday: TIG welding
Level up your welding skills by learning to use the TIG machine. TIG stands for Tungsten Inert Gas welding, or GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding). What is the difference between TIG, MIG, Stick, and Gas? Tune in and find out.
In this workshop you will learn the basic operation of the TIG welding machine. Learning how to use a TIG torch takes time and practice. Consider this workshop an introduction. Once you’ve mastered TIG you’ll be able to weld aluminum, bicycle frames, bronze, cast iron, copper, stainless, tinfoil, etc. Workshop participants will make a metal picture frame for an 8 1/2” x 11” work.
Everyone knows how to use the MIG welder. It is a glue gun— it’s fast and easy, but the results can be hard on the eyes (translation: booger welds). The TIG torch is like a fine paintbrush. It can be used strategically, and with a light touch.
Instructor: Jack Risley’s large-scale sculptures transform the familiar into the uncanny. Animated by seemingly incongruous relational arrangements, wardrobe boxes, camping tents, drinking glasses, ripe oranges, whiteboards, soda bottles, and industrial dust mops all become sites of tender exchange. Are these objects and automata relics of an abandoned past or instruments of a future-in-progress? Each sculpture invites the viewer to reconsider the physical and spatial anomalies of our built environment.
about fox fridays
Fox Fridays is a weekly, low-stress workshop series introducing the WashU community to overlooked or lesser-known tools, resources, processes, and ideas. It provides a platform for students to develop hybridized practices of creative output that transcend discipline, medium, and experience.