About The Flaming Lotus Girls
Flaming Lotus Girls is a group of female and male artists who make large-scale collaborative fire and metal art. We began in 2000, as a group of 6 women and two men who wanted to attain the necessary skills and knowledge to participate in the creation of large sculptural installations. Since that time, we have gown into an artist’s group of more than 100 members, more than half being women.
We have created major interactive sculptural works, incorporating innovative designs in welded metal, interactive fire effects and responsive electronics. Our sculptures are made of steel, stainless steel, copper, aluminum, glass and wood – and sizes range from small to the very large, with fire blazing from 2“ to 150’.
Women and men are encouraged to participate with the us by helping to design, build, operate, and play with the machines. Flaming Lotus projects encourage members with novice to expert-level experience to develop various art-making skills such as design, metal sculpting, operating various metal working tools, soldering, welding and actual fire-device construction.
We strive to accommodate and incorporate new members, holding weekly meetings in SF to which newcomers are welcome to attend.
To get in direct contact with us, you can leave a comment on the blog. Or bettery yet, send a private note directly to us on our contact page.
I am (really, really) interested in participating. When are the weekly meetings?
We have meetings most every Wednesday 7:30pm at the Box Shop (http://tinyurl.com/2jarn7). But before you come down, give one of us a buzz to make sure 1- there’s a meeting 2- it’s at the Shop 3- It’s a meeting that you’d find interesting (sometimes meetings are boring for newcomers).
That said, I’ll contact you privately and tell you about upcoming meetings
Lee – Lee at flaminglotus dat com
I want to learn metalwork, please. I’ll be living in Santa Cruz, going to school at UCSC, and would like to learn and help on the Burning Man project too if I can. Are there weekend workshops or something convenient like that? Can I come to an interesting meeting too?
Jolie, I sent you a private email about this – Lee
Hello again, I wanted to spread the word that I have a Mail Art Call for images of FIRE. I thought you might know a few people that like fire
Please spread the word among your firey friends . In flames, Perry 
Hey guys Love to see that the projects are more helified the ever, MaN! Wish i Could of WOrk on The SerpEnt. MIss Ya GuYS. Had The BEst Time WOrking WIth u Guys on The AA Project..If u Evr Need an Extra Hand Im Always Around..EasY.