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Marjee-Anne Levine is the Manager of Operations at Sincere Specialty Fabrication and Casting, a fine art bronze casting foundry and custom fabrication shop located in Chelsea, MA. She is known internationally for her work and expertise in the field of iron casting, having lectured, exhibited, and poured iron at various conferences and institutions worldwide. She was the 2015 co-chair and 2017 co-chair of the National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices held at Sloss Furnaces, National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, AL. She has taught Foundry and Ironcasting courses at MassArt since 2009. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA from Georgia State University.

Industry Experience

Selected Performances

• Monsters vs. City Performance, The Steel Yard, Providence, RI (Collaboration with TSY and MassArt Iron Corps), 2015
• Prometheus’ Disco Performance, Salem Art Works 8th Annual Intercollegiate Iron Pour, Salem, NY (Collaboration with the MassArt Iron Corps), 2014
• Mad Science Performance, The Steel Yard, Providence, RI (Collaboration with TSY and MassArt Iron Corps), 2014
• Temporally Coincident Occurrences of Acausal Events Performance, Salem Art Works 7th Annual,  Intercollegiate Iron Pour, Salem, NY (Collaboration with the MassArt Iron Corps), 2013
• The Iron Spiral Performance, National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art & Practices, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, Birmingham, AL (Collaboration with the MassArt Iron Corps), 2013
• Chicago Fire Spinnah Performance, International Sculpture Conference, Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, University Park, IL, 2012
• The Exquisite Cupola Performance, The 5th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, World Heritage Site of Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, 2006
• Ahistorical Iron Performance, as part of MFA thesis work, held at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2004

Selected Presentations

• Panel Lecture – Cast Iron Performance Art; Current Trends and Historical Context National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art & Practices, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, Birmingham, AL, 2015
• Panel Lecture – A Cylinder With Three Holes: The Cupola Demystified National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art & Practices, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, Birmingham, AL, 2013
• Visiting Artist, Workshop Instructor – Ceramic Shell and Sand Molding for Iron International Sculpture Conference, Chicago, IL, 2012
• Cast in Bronze: A Workshop Exploring and Creating Bronze Sculpture, Intersession course for Harvard University, held at New England Sculpture Service, Chelsea, MA, 2012
• Panel Lecture – Collaborative Iron Sculpture, The 6th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, Kidwelly Industrial Museum, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, 2010
• Panel Lecture – Funky Furnace Design, The Western Cast Iron Art Conference, Denver, CO, 2008
• Panel Moderator – In the Making: Tools of the Trade, The 5th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, World Heritage Site of Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, 2006

Organizations

• National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices
• Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, Birmingham, AL – Co-Chair 2015 and 2017