Making art and helping inspire future welders with Staci Martinez

Staci Martinez joins The Fabricator Podcast to talk about starting her own small business in Sioux Falls, S.D. called 605 Shield Maiden, which focuses on creating metal art sculptures, fabricating handrails, and combing wood and metal to make furniture. She discusses how working briefly as a production welder and seeing all the potential in the scrap metal bin inspired her to pursue metal art. Staci eventually created her first sculpture, a gnome, and was chosen to have it on display at SculptureWalk, an exhibit of outdoor sculptures displayed year-round in downtown Sioux Falls. She also talks about her involvement with The Hooded Heroes Foundation, which serves to help provide welding equipment and PPE to those who can't afford. At the top, hosts Dan Davis and Josh Welton talk about unfortunate metal sculptures, including the infamous Cristiano Ronaldo bust at an airport in Portugal. Email us at podcast@fmamfg.org with any comments, questions, or suggestions.

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The Fabricator Podcast brings you conversations with people who make things out of metal. We speak with manufacturing leaders, metal fabricators, welders, job shop owners, small business entrepreneurs, artists, marketers, educators, and more. Host Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief of The Fabricator, and a rotating co-hosts also go beyond discussing just manufacturing and the skilled trades, and chats about pop culture, current events, food, music, movies, comedy, and, of course, robots. Episodes drop on Tuesdays. The Fabricator Podcast is presented by the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association and part of the FMA Podcast Network.