About Sculptural Metal Studio in Selkirk College

Focusing on exploring your personal expression in metal, we give you the necessary discipline and skills to be able to venture into the global metal marketplace. With an emphasis on developing proper technique and using appropriate tools safely, you’ll learn how to design, sculpt, mold and cast in bronze using sand and lost wax casting methods.

Plus, you’ll get hands-on practice in studio production, casting sculptural forms and pouring molten metal as you design, create and develop molds and patterns for casting in our foundry room.

You will gain the control and confidence to produce traditional and contemporary ironwork and reach a level appropriate for a blacksmith apprentice. Produce work in non-ferrous metals through a variety of studio and foundry demonstrations, discussions, field tips, exercises and self-directed studio time.

Gain Valuable Skills

• Learn the basics of tool construction and tool safety (TIG welder, grinders, air tools)

• Making rubber molds
• Wax chasing
• Metal finishing
• How to submit a presentation to a client
• Increase your hand skills and your hand-eye coordination
• Understand the movement of mass
• Sharpen your creative problem solving

Your Courses Include 

• Drawing and design for Blacksmithing  and Metal Casting 

• How to Cast Bronze
• Exploration of Bronze
• Advanced Conceptualization and Creation Techniques
• Metal Shop Culture 
• Primary Hammer Skills 
• Production Processes

Academic qualification equivalents

• Completion of All India or State Board HSC (XII): 55% or higher in relevant subjects.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS:Must have an IELTS score of 6.0 with no band less than 6.0. 

  Post Graduate Diploma programs and a few other programs have a higher English Language Proficiency requirement (6.5 IELTS).

• TOEFL: TOEFL score of IBT 80 or better

Selkirk College Highlights

Selkirk College Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

• The payment of the semester must be made by the students before the first day of academic term.
• For payment methods cash, cheque, money order, bank draft, credit as well as debit cards are accepted
• The annual fees of courses vary with each other. Below mentioned is the estimated cost of living in Canada when enrolled at the institute: