514-848-2424 ext. 7946
Workshops
Mould-Making Shop
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Cutting a slab of clay with a spatula
Smoothing out the clay wall around a mould before making the support shell with Forton and biaxial fiberglass
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Supported Processes
- Body moulds using: plaster bandages, alginate and plaster bandages, skin sage silicone and plaster bandages
- Moulds of objects or clay pieces using plaster, silicone and urethane
- Casting in body moulds or object moulds using plaster, silicone, urethane rubber or resins
- Casting in Forton and creating fake marble and bronze finishes using metal powders and pigments
- Expanding or reducing objects with materials such as Expandit or Reducit
Contact us
Technician:
Monique Deschamps

Opening hours

Fall/Winter Session
Wood Shop
Working with hand tools
Gluing up panels for painting
Trimming panels on the table saw
Equipment
- Table saw
- Chop saw
- Jointer
- Thickness planer
- Band saws
- A wide assortment of power and hand tools
- Tool lending service available with presentation of a Concordia student card
Availability
- Appointments recommended, walk in’s accepted depending on volume of students using the shop.
- Though we are labeled as a wood shop the technician has a respectable knowledge of other materials and methods.
- All projects must be course related.
Opening hours

Fall/Winter Session
Foundry/Metal Shop
Loading bronze pieces into melting furnace
Bronze preheating on the lid of the melting furnace
Lost-wax casting process - Ceramic shell molds before kiln flashed fired
Unloading fired ceramic shell molds from burnout kiln
Crucible with molten bronze
Skimming slag off
Pouring bronze into fired ceramic shell molds
Hot bronze castings
Supported Processes
- Welding booth
- MIG welding in steel, bronze and aluminum
- Plasma cutting
- MIG welding in steel, bronze and aluminum
- Bending, folding, cutting and drilling floor equipment as well as numerous hand tools to work with metal.
- Sandblasting / Grinding room provides students with a dedicated space for use of sandblaster, ceramics shelling mold-making, grinding aluminum, and ceramic shell removal.
- Waxing work for lost-wax casting process
- Ceramics shell process for metal casting
- Metal Casting in bronze, aluminum and pewter
- Patina
Shop equipment also includes:
- Manual power floor shear
- Manual press brake bending machine
- Drill press
- Vertical band saw
- Pedestal grinder
- Sandblaster
- Gas melting furnace
- Burnout kiln
Contact us
Technicians:
Natalie Nadeau
Kevin Andres-Teixeira

514-848-2424 ext. 5637
Opening hours

Fall/Winter Session