TOWN OF EAU PLEINE - The Kochanowski brothers were studying a stylized metal sculpture of a cat that crouched on a waist-high table. August Kochanowski is 33 and Vincent is 35, and they were ...

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 ...

Darla Selander is 57 years old, 5-foot-nothing and can do more pushups than you. She also likes red leather jackets, diamond earrings and—above all—her rough, calloused hands. All of these are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In the opening pages, Thomas describes combining the rich history of this centuries old craft with ...

Retired blacksmith John Dittmeier will give a lecture on blacksmithing at the Athens-Clarke County Library. He learned blacksmithing from Bill Gichner, a renowned blacksmith and tool collector. The ...

(WKYT) - It can be a very loud place. Maynard Studios, a few miles from Lawrenceburg, are 6,000 square feet full of worktables, stacks of steel, anvils, a machine shop, and heavy blacksmith equipment ...

Years after establishing a Manhattan gallery in the mid-1980s, husband-and-wife artists Robert Bernard Hurwitz and Alice Hurwitz left the city to pursue life upstate while keeping their passion for ...

The Clifton neighborhood workshop is a step back in time, more 1800s gothic novel than 2021 America with its myriad of ancient tools blackened by years of use. Billowing sheets of plastic hang from ...

Molding metal into shapes against its nature continues to be a lifelong pursuit of art for a recent Californian-turned-Wacoan blacksmith. Transforming a 2,000-square-foot space off South 32nd Street ...

FITCHBURG — From the sounds of metal-on-metal to the melodies of live music, this Saturday will be a full day of events for downtown. Organizer hope two back-to-back festivals — the Blacksmith Art and ...