Casting Marble Sculptures with Pigment // Zero Waste Art Studio // Start to Finish // Modern Athena

Recycling the dust and marble rubble from her art studio, sculptor Jyl Bonaguro shows how she makes a colorful faux marble resin casting or cold cast marble with dust, aggregate, resin, and pigment for a raw lapis lazuli stone effect. Crushing marble, permanent silicone mold making, and marble casting along with concrete and marble base casting are demonstrated in this Start to Finish on how to cast marble using her studio waste rubble. In recreating her studio as a zero waste art studio, Jyl Bonaguro is now able to recycle all her
marble waste into cast bases and cast marble sculptures.

This program partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency and a grant from the Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation. The Modern Athena Monument is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Please consider a donation and receive an original artwork http://jylbonaguro.com/donate

Special Thanks to:
Shencheng Xu, Professor of Sculpture at Northeastern IL University

Jyl Bonaguro, a contemporary sculptor, is demonstrating how to carve marble with traditional tools such as the tooth chisel, the point chisel, flat chisel, engraving knives and diamond rasps as she completes the small scale version of her Modern Athena sculpture.

"Over twenty years ago, I dreamed of carving a female figure of major stature - a Modern Athena on the scale of Michelangelo’s David out of a single block of marble. It seemed an impossible dream. However, in 2014, a friend offered me some blocks of marble and I began teaching myself how to carve stone. In the ensuing years, I have exhibited and sold works nationally and internationally, along with completing residencies in Italy and Greece. I am currently carving a small scale version and releasing weekly progress videos on social media. The Modern Athena sculpture is about breaking limitations, for myself and anyone." - Jyl Bonaguro

Episode #21 Casting Marble // Modern Athena Sculpture featuring Sculptor Jyl Bonaguro

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