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 ...

Wiregrass Forge is showing off, and the local blacksmith club doesn’t want to lose its edge… or curves, or braids, or any angle possible with the endless items of art its members have created. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...