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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTAGE COUNTY (WLUK) -- An art project slated to be installed this weekend in Door County is almost ready to go. Inside a workshop near Junction City, in Portage County, Boleslaw Kochanowski says a 2 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Press release from the Folk Art Center: The Southern Highland Craft Guild opens its fourth and final exhibition for the 2018 year with Forging Ahead: A Blacksmith Invitational in the Folk Art Center’s ...

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 ...

Now in his retirement years, John Dittmeier has found a place to house his collections and his tools gathered from a career spent forging metal through the danger of extreme heat and the wear of human ...