KALAMAZOO, MI — Artist and blacksmith Jon Reeves faces temperatures of almost 3,000 degrees at his forge in the heart of downtown Kalamazoo. Located in the Park Trades Center, his studio, Combat Ready ...

FITCHBURG — The high-pitched clang of hammers hitting red-hot steel will ring through the city’s Riverfront Park once again this Saturday, Sept. 28, for the 16th annual Blacksmith Art & Renaissance ...

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 ...

FARMER CITY - Those who enter Flood Plain Forge or Farmer City Art Glass usually are there to admire the artistic endeavors created by local artists. Behind the scenes, there's a whole lot of teaching ...

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 ...

The variations add to a blacksmith's artistic control. Learning about blacksmithing has taught him a lot about history, Luark says. ‘‘The masters of blacksmithing were in the 1700s,'' he says. ‘‘They ...

Apr. 29—MITCHELL — Growing up, blacksmith Clark Martinek looked at the fall harvest as a time of joy, not just for farmers and agriculture but for the whole community. Martinek created a story within ...

Humans have been working with metal for millennia, and Angelenos are still practicing the craft, thanks in part to Adam’s Forge. Founded in 2002 in memory of artist and blacksmith Adam Leventhal, the ...

Deep in the forge, a lifeless piece of angle iron meets the roaring fire. Hammer strikes echo through the workshop as the blacksmith bends, shapes, and refines every curve by hand. Slowly, a sleek ...