The Steel Yard
The Steel Yard in Providence, Rhode Island is a non-profit organization. Its goals are to teach industrial arts to a wide array of people in the community. The working facilities at the Steel Yard are ceramics, bronze casting, glass casting, metal work, and blacksmithing.
Bins of Steel, Custom Can Culture
Curt Welding Trash can frame
Howie Sneider talks about Stewardship, The Steel Yard, crafting trash cans for the city and fellow artists' work.
The trash cans are unique projects that become unique objects, and they are cultural landmarks " Go down Smith Street and take a left at that weird trash can with the state house cut out of it." That is an example of how these cans can be integrated into peoples' daily life just by walking past it.
Nate, Howie, Gillian, Curt, Anna, Boris
assemble trash cans at The Steel Yard
Because the Steel Yard is non profit and mission based, any project we do has to be honest to our mission which is reviving neighborhoods, encouraging industrial craft and artwork, as well as knowledge of the industrial process. We have a strong emphasis on public and public accessibility.
Excerpt article 7/2006
For more information visit The Steel Yard.