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 ...
A journeyman blacksmith, Talon Cavender-Wilson melds traditional Scandinavian metal working skills with design and art from his Dakota roots and beyond. Talon Cavender-Wilson decided he wanted to ...
Virginia Artist-blacksmith Nol Putnam talks art, mythology and forging metal. Artist-blacksmith Nol Putnam employs centuries-old techniques to make art out of iron and steel. Over four decades, Nol ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
After my visit to the Living History Park in North Augusta last month, where the Phillip Simmons Blacksmithing Guild held what they call a “Hammer-In” demonstration, I was hooked on the craft. My ...