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 ...

If you're looking to escape a cold and snowy day like Saturday, blacksmithing is one way to do it. Steve Cukrowicz stood feet away from a 2,800-degree forge as he taught basics of the craft to a ...

HANCOCK, Maine (WABI) - A skill humanity has forged for millennia now continues to the next generation. Michael Whitmore says he began blacksmithing at the age of 10. He has been mastering the craft ...

July 21, 2025 at 7:15 a.m. EDT44 minutes ago Beatrix Lockwood spoke to Caitlin Morris. Illustrations by Maya Scarpa for The Washington Post. Caitlin Morris is the owner of Ms. Caitlin’s School of ...

Middle school students looked like they were roasting marshmallows as they clustered around a small forge filled with red hot coals to heat steel rods in a temporary blacksmithing workshop set up ...

Weekends will be assigned a class level based on the first participant to register. Childrens classes are available for students ages 12 and older. Students must begin with Blacksmithing 101 unless ...

Explore my one-car garage blacksmith shop, built after four years of blacksmithing classes where I learned to create ...

HINCKLEY, Maine (WABI) - It’s is a sound you may not expect in a typical high school classroom. But at the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences, it’s just everyday background noise. “I love the ...

When you think of a blacksmith, you probably think back to colonial times, a rugged, Founding Father-type with rolled-up sleeves, hammering away on an anvil. But the art form is alive and well today, ...