ABOUT THE ARTIST
Page Burch is trained in fine woodworking, metal fabrication, and foundry work. He worked at Kennesaw State University from 2010 until 2023, where he served as a Senior Lecturer of Sculpture and ran the Master Craftsman program, which he started in 2017. The student-based program has collaborated with the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History, the City of Kennesaw, The William Root House Museum & Garden, Southern Graphics Council International, Town Center CID, and Smith-Gilbert Gardens, among others. Currently, he works as a studio technician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
His specialty in iron casting has led him to serve as the Co-Chair for the 2023 National Conference on Cast Iron Art and Practices, as well as on the Steering Committee (2015 and 2017). He has taken part in performances, conferences, and workshops in Scotland, England, Latvia, and Germany, as well as all over the eastern United States. He has exhibited at the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, TN, Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in Solsberry, IN, Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, MN, and Western North Carolina Sculpture Center in Lenoir, NC.
He received his BFA in Studio Art - Sculpture from Georgia Southern University in 2007, an MA in Sculpture from SCAD-Atlanta in 2009, and an MFA in Sculpture from SCAD-Atlanta in 2014, because everyone needs three degrees and crushing debt. He prefers wooden patterns, cupolettes, botting with a stick, and believes that folks who make IPAs are too lazy to make good beer.
In his spare time, Page is interested in lowbrow and pop culture, horror movies, and cats. For real.
His spirit tool is a ¾” Stanley Sweetheart 750 socket chisel.