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(Video and photos by Guy Windholz)

Friday’s Fall Art Walk sponsored by the Hays Arts Council included 23 venues featuring amazing visual arts exhibitions and fabulous “arts-in-action” with live music, ceramics wheel throwing and an iron pour.

The “Metal Masters on Main”–Lance Wadlow and Toby Flores, worked on 10th Street,  just west of Main. According to Flores, a Fort Hays State University associate professor of art and design and a sculpture artist, they poured 700 pounds with Wadlow’s blast furnace called “Lil’ Ed.”

With a little help from their friends, scrap iron was dumped into the smelter, poured out in molten form, wheeled to the mold and then poured in and left to cool. Saturday morning the molds were removed and the finished product revealed.