When Leslie Tharp began her career as a metal artist in 2009, the metalworking community in north central Florida was quite small. “You really had to leave the state to go anywhere,” Tharp said in her ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — If you were to accidentally stumble into the big sculpture studio on the first floor of the Albert Simons Center for the Arts on a Thursday afternoon and heard all the ...

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Mar. 21—At Assets School, the most popular mentorship program for over 10 years has been a metal arts class, where students learn how to make their own knives and hone life-shaping skills. In the ...

In his Armada garage, Eric Hemker wears a full face shield, a baseball cap and noise-cancelling headphones blasting anything ...

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Mark Johnstone Hopper has a simple job description. “I hit things with a hammer — for a reason.” Others fill out his resume. “I’m unbelievably impressed with his passion and craftsmanship. It’s the ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Frank McKinney, a blacksmith and American history buff in Alberton, spends much of his time in his garage. There, he has a collection of forges — the furnaces where blacksmiths heat ...

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - The mild smell of burning coal fills a warm workshop stocked with beefy equipment that dates from a century or three ago. John Latowski takes a blacksmith's hammer and whacks ...