Instructor: Linnéa Gad
Monday - Friday
July 28 - August 1
9am - 12pm
5 sessions

Discover the joy of creating steel sculptures in this hands-on workshop. Metal and Sea - Sculpting with Steel introduces a range of tools and techniques, including MIG welding, plasma cutting, grinding, hammering, and drilling, encouraging experimental approaches to working with metal. Participants will be guided to source salvaged steel and draw inspiration from the surrounding marine environment. While the demonstrations will focus on metalwork, participants are welcome to incorporate other materials into their sculptures using the facility’s resources.

This class is open to all skill levels—even if you’ve never worked with metal before!

Linnéa Gad is a visual artist from Stockholm, Sweden. Her art reflects an interconnected ecosystem, with works in cardboard, metal, bark, and porcelain, all embodying protective shell materials and calcification processes. Her practice is cyclical, reusing materials and recurring motifs, embodying lifecycles. Gad received her MFA from Columbia University in 2022. Her solo shows include Return of The Mollusk at Astor Weeks in New York (2024), Erratics at Spencer Brownstone in New York (2019) and Luster Pit at RØM in Copenhagen (2018). The artist has participated in group shows at The Jewish Museum in New York (2022), The Lenfest Center for the Arts in New York (2021) and SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen (2021). The artist has also recently exhibited at Ceysson Bénétière in New York, Beau Travail in Stockholm, Half Gallery in New York and Issues Gallery in Stockholm. In 2023, Gad presented her first public artwork, Shoals, two large-scale sculptures installed in Nolan Park on Governors Island in collaboration with the Billion Oyster Project. She is the recipient of multiple grants from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and was shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022.

Photo credits for the images of my work is David Schulze and the portrait photo credit is by Yekaterina Gyadu