Posts tagged Blacksmithing
Rooting for You: Smithing for the Garden
Rooting for You: Smithing for the Garden

Blacksmithing is a versatile craft that enables you to make a tremendous range of objects, from jewelry to sculpture, and almost anything in between. Workshop participants will be introduced to fundamental blacksmithing techniques while learning to make beautiful and useful objects for the home and garden. Hooks, plant hangers, simple tools, and more are all possibilities as you learn to use a hammer, anvil, and fire to shape steel to your designs. Exclusive for beginners.

Addison de Lisle (he/him) is a formally trained metalsmith who uses blacksmithing, silversmithing, and digital fabrication techniques to produce a broad range of work. He teaches workshops and exhibits work nationwide and maintains an independent studio practice in midcoast Maine.

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Square ONEMolly FlaniganBlacksmithing, Addison de Lisle
Ready for Whatever
Ready for Whatever

This beginner’s workshop will focus on traditional and innovative ways to form hot steel. Emphasis will be on teaching skills required to express unique ideas and create well-crafted work in iron. Participants will learn tapering, upsetting, bending, spreading, forge welding, and inflating and welding with an Oxygen Acetylene torch will be taught. All levels welcome.

Elizabeth Brim (she/her) is an artist who uses traditional blacksmithing techniques and innovative metalworking techniques to make sculptures.

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Session 1Molly FlaniganBlacksmithing, Elizabeth Brim
Boxes, Bits + Pieces
Boxes, Bits + Pieces

Participants in this workshop will create objects that balance the industrial history of steel with a gracefulness of form. Building on a solid base of fundamental forging, forming, and fabricating techniques, participants will expand their visual vocabulary through creative problem solving and by exploring inventive uses of material to create vessels made to contain tangible items (favorite objects, etc.), as well as intangibles (ideas, thoughts, actions, etc.). All levels welcome.

Stephen Yusko (he/him) creates sculpture, furniture, vessels, and jewelry in his Cleveland, OH studio using mixed material combined with forged, machined, and fabricated steel.

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Session 2Molly FlaniganBlacksmithing, Stephen Yusko
Making Maruko Tools Glassblowing Jacks
Making Maruko Tools Glassblowing Jacks

This workshop will be focused on making jacks—one of the most essential tools in glassblowing. Primarily focusing on the manufacturing process of the jack blades, the workshop will walk through step-by-step on how Maruko Tools jacks are made with demonstrations followed by lots of hands-on practice. Techniques such as forging, low gas brass welding, bending, and more will be covered. The handles of the jacks will be provided, and participants will weld on the blades they create and learn to adjust the springs of the handles. Three years of blacksmith experience required; workshop not intended for beginners. Previous experience in forging and gas welding is required; both glassblowers and those who have never been involved with glassare welcome.

Shin Nagai (he/him) is a blacksmith specializing in making glassblowing tools, working solo at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, and is the Founder and sole artisan of Maruko Tools.

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Session 3Molly FlaniganBlacksmithing, Shin Nagai