Artist statement: The beauty is in all of us, just let it out. Artist background: Graduated from high school in Carbondale in 1955, spent my adult life as a public works engineer and started ...

Your image of a blacksmith is likely antiquated. It probably involves a man pounding a red-hot piece of iron on an anvil. But if you conjured up a statuesque blonde completing the same task, welcome ...

Reb Staup is a local blacksmith, woodworker and T-shirt designer living in Westminster. When Staup was young he liked to draw. “I was always interested in some type of art,” Staup said. He started ...

Bob Elliott of Fairmont, W.Va., did a blacksmith demonstration in Canonsburg for the Pittsburgh Area Artist Blacksmiths Association. Blacksmith Bob Elliott heats metal to 1,400 to 1,600 degrees before ...

GAYLORD — A rhythmic hammering is established as blacksmith George Magsig strikes and shapes the tip of a red hot steel bar on the anvil before returning it to the fiery forge for additional heating. ...

Asked what it feels like to forge iron, Robert Thomas has to pause for a moment and compose himself before plunging into a description of what, for him, is as much a passion as a livelihood. "Forging ...

David Sandlin did not set out to be a blacksmith, and he certainly didn’t set out to be the president of the Florida Artist Blacksmith Association (FABA). Even so, he will be busy Nov. 4-6 overseeing ...

PROVIDENCE — When Alaina Mahoney was a painting student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the late aughts, she joined a group called Iron Core. “Students figured out how to melt their own ...

The Pennsylvania Artist-Blacksmiths’ Association held its annual Blacksmith Day Saturday at Old Dry Road Farm in Lower Heidelberg Township. Activities at the free event included forging demonstrations ...

Thomas Latané has been creating elaborate hand-forged ironworks since he was in junior high, so one might think that at 58 he'd have figured out everything there is to know about shaping metal into ...

COLUMBIA — On a Saturday in April, David Bush was working over a portable coal-fired forge outside the Olympia Mill Village Museum. The coals burned hot. Orange, yellow and blue flames licked towards ...

Press release from the John C. Campbell Folk School: November’s cooler temperatures and falling leaves encourage a return to festive indoor gatherings. The John C. Campbell Folk School’s annual ...