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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A shower of orange sparks crackled from the end of an iron rod as Steve Gensheimer hammered it into form atop an anvil. But he was only able to get in a few smacks before the glow would fade. Then it ...

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 ...