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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOWN OF EAU PLEINE - The Kochanowski brothers were studying a stylized metal sculpture of a cat that crouched on a waist-high table. August Kochanowski is 33 and Vincent is 35, and they were ...

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 ...

Carbondale, COLORADO ” Who could have guessed that an inquisitive, young blacksmith working on a ranch 20 years ago for $6 an hour could have turned a molehill into a mountain? That is, a mountain of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guest artist blacksmith and instructor Ellen Durkan works on a piece Tuesday during a four-day workshop at Crooked Path Forge in Gainesville. Crooked Path Forge, a blacksmith school tucked away in a ...