Lloyd Mandelbaum is a highly skilled and experienced artist and art foundry professional with extensive experience in bronze, aluminum, and iron casting in small foundry settings. Lloyd's background includes working with commercial foundries and studio artists, as well as founding and directing Chicago Crucible, an art casting and fabrication foundry located in Chicago, IL. Lloyd is well-versed in all aspects of the casting process, including silicon, plaster, and fiberglass molding, wax pattern generation and sprewing, ceramic shell investment handling and utilization, burn out kiln construction, operation and maintenance, bronze, aluminum, and iron casting, metal grinding, chasing, finishing, polishing, mig, stick, tig, oxy-acetylene welding, plasma cutting, patina, painting, metal sealing, bonded sand and multi-part molding. Lloyd has a BFA in Sculpture, Foundry Arts, and Metal Fabrication from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.