Blacksmith Ted McNett has established himself as one of Carroll County’s premier metal workers. The president of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland, he works to keep the tradition of ...
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 ...
Blacksmithing holds a rare kind of beauty that stands out in an age shaped by automation and quick manufacturing. The forge, the hammer, and the steady rhythm of practiced hands come together to show ...
In a salute to its past, Historic Dublin again will have a blacksmith's shop -- or at least an artist's vision of one. Brower Hatcher's vision of the George M. Karrer blacksmith shop that stood on the ...
GUILFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — It’s hot, it’s loud, and a bit dirty, but one Connecticut artist says it’s all he has ever known. Mace Vitale is a blacksmith at the Guilford Art Center. Mace says that while ...
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 ...
Yaw Owusu Shangofemi is a master of a dying art. It is a craft born when primitive man first discovered he could turn crude metal into useful objects. It is a craft that in colonial America provided ...
FREETOWN — Dink, dink, dink. Dink, dink, dink. Dink, dink, dink. Anyone who’s ever watched a blacksmith lay a piece of hot iron on a big anvil and slowly hammer the glowing metal into something useful ...
Kate Dinneen, 51, is extra cautious when doing blacksmith work. That’s because she uses her fingers and hands to play the string bass in the Topeka Symphony Orchestra. When you think of a blacksmith ...
Flurries of sparks and intense heat don’t seem to faze the blacksmith apprentices of Lizama’s Forge. Each one looks calm as they focus on their tasks. Sean Lizama, the son of master blacksmith Frank ...
FITCHBURG — The sound of hammers pounding on hot iron will again reverberate over Riverfront Park on Sept. 27, as the 11th annual Blacksmith Art and Music Festival returns to the city, celebrating the ...