Retired General Motors skilled tradesman and artist Tom Pierson presents a talk entitled "Metal Spinning: An Autoworker Skilled Trade and an Artist's Craft." Pierson talks about his career and training as a metal spinner for General Motors and explains the differences between spinning for General Motors and spinning as art. He discusses the imperfections in his work which buyers like but would have been unacceptable at GM, the tools of the trade, what it is like to spin various kinds of metals and what it has been like for him to create and sell pieces as an artist. Pierson is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, and the MSU Museum. Held in the MSU Museum Auditorium.
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