Discoveries-America Special Edition, Artist Profiles: Metal Sculptors - DVD

Discoveries...America, Special Edition focuses on an extraordinary element of American culture. Talented people, interesting places and unusual things. Producers Jim & Kelly Watt introduce you to gifted metal sculptors they encountered while filming the award winning "Discoveries... America" DVD & Television series. Metal sculptor profiles include the following features: Tracy Hett, deftly welds and shapes brass, copper and steel into windmills, wheat, sunflowers and �anything to do with Kansas.� (KS); M.T. Liggett, is a roadside artist, who uses junked farm machinery, car parts, road signs & railroad equipment for his artistic expressions (KS); Polich Tallix Foundry, can cast monumental sculpture up to 46 feet high indoors as well as conservation and restoration services. (NY); Valley Bronze, takes pride in producing art of ferric metals and precious metals as well as bronze and aluminum. (OR); Robert Cumpston, is a scrap sculptor, gave up farming for art and welds pieces of old farm machinery into life-size sculptures of animals. (IL) & Jim Powers, is a junk art sculptor and creates giant insects, buffaloes, life-size elephants, dinosaurs all out of scrap metal from junk cars. (OK)