FOUNDER'S STATEMENT
"There is no art more dependent on it's technical aspects than sculpture.
An ignorance of technique limits a sculptor's creativity, wastes hours of work in bringing a cast to a likeness of the
original, and renders the artist captive of the foundry's trade secrecy and commercialism.
Until the Industrial Revolution, however, the opposite was true. The home of the foundry was the sculptor's studio, where
the results of poor practices and errors in judgment were immediately visited upon the artist, for it was the artist who
both created and cast their own work. This system led to quality and efficiency.
It is the goal of the Institute to restore the link and the interplay which used to exist between the sculptor and the
founding of their work. Its goal is also to educate and train more artisans to be available to aid the sculptor in
completing their task, to develop methods for making these processes less costly and more responsive to the sculptor's
needs, and finally, to play as small part in whatever forces must come together to bring more sculpture into the 20th
century lifestyle."
J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
