1889 Foundation gives $250K grant to Center for Metal Arts
“The 1889 Foundation recently joined the ongoing collaborative effort to develop a full campus at the Center for Metal Arts in Johnstown by awarding a $250,000 grant to the academic […]
“The 1889 Foundation recently joined the ongoing collaborative effort to develop a full campus at the Center for Metal Arts in Johnstown by awarding a $250,000 grant to the academic […]
The ground shook on Saturday as a 10-ton steam hammer came down on a glowing orange steel billet, giving those standing around the colossus the feeling that 160 years of […]
Center For Metal Arts has been drawing folks to Johnstown both domestically and internationally for the last five years. Students have attended from the UK, Germany, Australia, and plenty of […]
July 27, 2022 WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.5 million grant to the Center […]
Earlier this month, CMA received a $1.5 million grant to help restore their facilities, which are the oldest remaining buildings of the Johnstown Steel Mill. Read the article
The Center for Metal Arts in Johnstown has been awarded a $1.5 million grant to restore three iconic former steel mill buildings at the Cambria Iron Works, a National Historic […]
Starting in August, Pennsylvania Highlands Community College will offer four courses in forging metals. The courses will be offered as part of a collaboration with the Johnstown-based Center for Metal […]
Several blacksmiths worked together to crack open the base of a three-foot-tall, handmade clay furnace and carefully extricate a glowing orange iron bloom, weighing about 15 pounds. It was believed […]
Center for Metal Arts revives historic 19th-century blacksmith shop in Johnstown. Pennsylvania Magazine – Jan/Feb 2020 PAMagazine_Page1 PAMagazine_Page2 PAMagazine_Page3 PAMagazine_Page4 PAMagazine_Page5 PAMagazine_Page6 PAMagazinemissinglastpage
First tours of CMA offered to the public to view the newly refurbished 3000lb Chambersburg utility hammer forging again. Read the article.