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Padlock workshop with Peter Ross @centerformetalar

Padlock workshop with Peter Ross @centerformetalarts. Fun week and a nice look at what it would be like to be a locksmith in the 17th century!

Thank you Peter!

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Starting with the key, and going over the finer po

Starting with the key, and going over the finer points of the process. We are delighted to be hosting Peter and absorbing as much of his knowledge as we can!

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Instructor Spotlight: Peter Ross Workshop Name:

Instructor Spotlight: Peter Ross
Workshop Name: Pad Lock
Spots Available: One
Workshop Dates: April 12th-16th
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Workshop Description: As many know, my background is in historic reproduction and restoration, and in re-discovering 18th century hand skills and methods. I bring this background to the workshop, and hopefully will be able to touch on many methods and skills. I have a typical 18th century English padlock design to use as our intro, and a good project to familiarize everyone with basic lock making. At the same time, I encourage everyone to make their own aesthetic choices as they wish.
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This workshop will serve as an introduction to making locks, using a simple padlock as a starting point. We will use a historic example as a model. Participants can adhere to this model or adjust to suit their own taste and abilities. The range of techniques will be covered including freehand forging at the anvil, a thorough range of bench techniques for layout, cold punching, fitting, assembly, forge brazing, and file decoration. These traditional techniques involve simple hand tools as well as a few special types to be made during class. While forging is the initial step for some of the parts, expect to spend more time at the bench than at the anvil.
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A basic padlock is a good introduction to lock-making principles and execution. If time permits students may elect to work on an additional padlock of different form. There will also be time during class to examine and discuss other types
of locks, including any brought by participants.
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𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: Megan Dean
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: Steel Brazed Frame Building
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: October 18th-29th
Application for enrollment is open
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𝐁𝐢𝐨: Megan started building bike frames in 2009 after attending classes at the Yamaguchi school in Colorado. As a messenger and track racer in LA, her builds started there and have expanded as her riding styles have diversified as she slowly retreated to a small mountain town in Colorado. Currently, she is building solo in a small shop in CO, teaching mountain biking and trying to share the stoke of all things bike with anyone who will listen. @mothattack

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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: This course is designed to walk someone without metal working experience through the process of fitting and brazing a bicycle frame together with an emphasis on hand tools. We will start at design and work our way through to a completed frame ready for paint. You will have the option to build a Track, Road, Gravel, Cyclocross, or a Mountain bike frame (you will want parts and tires in person for this option) and decide prior to the start of class. Lugged or fillet brazed construction is an option and will be design dependent. This course will be a great start to picking up a torch and learning the basics of what it takes to build your own frame with something to ride when you’re done!

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@stephenyuskostudios and @nevilleforge doing the f

@stephenyuskostudios and @nevilleforge doing the final fit up on a pair of tongs last weekend!! This is such a jam packed workshop and was a wonderful group of students!!!

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𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: Haley Woodward @halingwdwang
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: Forging Focus Visiting Instructor: Power Hammer Techniques
𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: Yes
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𝐁𝐢𝐨: Haley has been blacksmithing professionally since 2001 with an MFA degree in Metal Arts from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Currently Haley runs the architectural and ornamental metals program at Austin Community College. He maintains his own studio in Austin where his work ranges from sculptural forged fine art pieces to architectural ironwork. Haley has been invited to exhibit and teach/demonstrate at Penland School of Craft, New England School of Metalwork, Forging on the River in Memphis TN, ABANA, CBA, ABA.
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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: We will be focusing on techniques for the power hammer. You will learn how to safely and effectively operate these versatile tools. As a teaching project we will make an architectural sample, something you might present to a client to achieve a final dialogue before work begins. This project will involve lots of joinery and forging of ornamental shapes. We will work with a variety of tooling under the hammer and talk about how that tooling is made. The design of this project is such that most of it is fixed, but there are also plenty of opportunities for students to add their own embellishments and design choices.

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A student punching a hole on the first day of our

A student punching a hole on the first day of our hammer making workshop!
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𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: Peter Braspenninx @phyreforge
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: Intentional Connections: Forge Welding, Design and Form
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: May 17th -21st
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬: Full
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𝐁𝐢𝐨: Peter Braspenninx, owner of Phyre Forge, is a graduate of the University of Michigan school of art and design (2004). He is an artist, blacksmith, and educator. His work has been shown, collected, and published nationally and internationally. His work focuses primarily on building shape and line through visual connections and joinery using traditional skills to make modern forms.
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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: In this week-long class, we will focus on traditional and nontraditional methods of design and joinery. The beginning of the week will be about design, development, and discovery, with demonstrations of techniques and discussions about design and methods. Through a series of small assignments and exercises, the students will build a knowledge of material movement and make small samples for what will be a project of their own design.
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The second half of the week will be about planning, process and preparation as we take the skills that have been presented and form them into an individual student designed final project. This will be a time of trouble shooting and instructor assisted design time, where we will plan, measure, and produce together, based on the skills and ideas that have been taught.
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*My goal as an instructor is to help facilitate looking at the metal from a different perspective, and to help guide you, the student, through the process of design and execution.

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Scholarships available for the 2021 Forging Focus

Scholarships available for the 2021 Forging Focus - “toolmaking, joinery, and relevant forgings” at Center for Metal Arts. Take advantage of six uninterrupted weeks of forging with three different instructors creating a wide variety of work focused on tool making, joinery, and design.

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𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: Jake James @jakeblacksmith
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: Collaborative Sculpture: Figurative Forging Based on Industrial Process
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: September 6th – 10th
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬: Full
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𝐁𝐢𝐨: Jake James is a blacksmith and sculptor with over 20 years of forging experience. Trained in the UK, and based for the last 16 years on Vancouver Island, BC, he has developed a style that focuses on the gesture and expressiveness that can be brought out in heavily forged material, and in exploring the plasticity of hot iron. Jake’s work cuts across the board, from small utilitarian items to large architectural commissions and public art pieces. At the root of all his design concepts though, is the desire to forge, and bring the aesthetic that blacksmithing is able to provide to the fore. Jake has also been teaching courses from his forge in Vancouver Island, and has led collaborative blacksmithing events around the world.

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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: This course has the goal of building a large figurative sculpture, based on a design by Jake, and using techniques that are often explored in his work.
Participants will be working in small forging groups, each working on separate elements of the sculpture that we will bring together to complete the whole piece.
We will be working larger section material, utilizing exaggerated transitions, heavy forging practices and focusing on volumetric forged shapes. I utilize relatively simple processes and then come up with some creative joinery to hang it all together!
This course will be open to all levels of experience, and we will be aiming to have a balance of highly experienced to novice level participants working along side each other. Expect to be swinging sledge hammers!

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𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: Jesse and Carrie Savage
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: Blacksmithing Basics: Bottle Opener
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: (Four Sections) May 22nd, May 23rd, September 18th, September 19th
𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: No
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𝐁𝐢𝐨: Jesse and Carrie are metal artist blacksmiths located in the heart of Central Vermont. They use hammers and anvil to traditionally forge iron work the old fashion way, with a modern twist. They work in their Rutland Blacksmith Shop. Their work can be found in Vermont Forgings’ gallery, Hand Made in Vermont’s Gallery in Wallingford, VT & many other local shops. Instagram @jessesavageblacksmith, @carriesavagevt
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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: This is a great beginner workshop for anyone interested in learning about blacksmithing. There are lots of basic forging techniques covered such as tapering, punching, drifting, twisting, scrolling, texturing and more. Also addressed in this workshop is proper hammer control, how to use various parts of the anvil, and safe effective working habits. Design and simple finishes will also be discussed.
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Bottle openers are a fun way to get familiar with forging. They teach you a lot, are great fun to create, and give the maker a lot of freedom to personalize them. Typically, students are able to create several bottle openers by the end of the day.
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Whether you’re looking to take the next step and learn some new techniques or want to give it a shot for the first time, this class is a great experience and leaves you with the perfect item to have at your next barbecue or party.

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Joe, cleaning up the transitions on his file vice!

Joe, cleaning up the transitions on his file vice!

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𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: Nick Anger @angerknives
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: Damascus Integral Chef Knife
Workshop Dates: (Four Sections) May 3rd-7th, May 10th-14th, September 20th-24th, September 27th- October 1st
𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: No
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𝐁𝐢𝐨: Nick Anger is a full-time bladesmith living in northern Vermont, who is passionate about patterned welded steel. Nick’s forgings embody the essence of a finely crafted blade, with patterns and style that are unique and impressive. Examples of his work can be seen at angerknives.com.
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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: In this workshop, students will have the opportunity to create their own Damascus billet and forge an integral chef knife. With significantly more time than the weekend workshop, this class is geared for people with some knife making experience that have the desire to work closely with Nick. Students will start on the first day by forging a small mono steel integral paring knife. This gets the class warmed up and gives them a chance to learn about forging the bolsters on something smaller and more manageable. Next, focus will be placed on creating and forging their own pattern steel billet in which they will forge their integral chef knife. Just like the weekend workshop, various pattern techniques will be discussed and an emphasis placed on controlled hand forging. This is an in-depth workshop giving students the full experience of creating a Damascus Integral Chef Knife. Covered in this workshop are hand forging, striking, and power hammer techniques, pattern making, forge welding, sanding, etching and finishing.
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Instructor Spotlight: Anna Koplik - @arkoplik Wo

Instructor Spotlight: Anna Koplik - @arkoplik
Workshop Name: Kitchen Utensils
Workshop Dates: March 27th – 28th
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Bio: Anna graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Jewelry and has since been working as a blacksmith at a variety of craft schools and architectural shops. She currently travels as a journeyman smith and to teach blacksmithing workshops. Anna has a passion for educating and showing beginner smiths the many different possibilities blacksmithing has to offer. Her personal work focuses mainly on tool and utensil making, and combining functionality with a refined, delicate aesthetic.
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Workshop Description: In this two-day class we will learn how to forge a variety of steel utensils from a single piece of material. We will cover isolating mass, spreading material, and drawing out stock to create utensils, such as spoons and spatulas. We will also go over various decorative techniques and designs allowing each student to walk away with their own unique and functional hand-forged utensils.

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Our winter residency has begun!!! It feels great t

Our winter residency has begun!!! It feels great to have blacksmiths in the classroom!!
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Enjoying some quiet moments before our winter resi

Enjoying some quiet moments before our winter residency kicks off tomorrow!!
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𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: Reid Schwartz - @reidschwartz
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: Toolmaking for Spoon Carving
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: March 29th - April 2nd
𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: No
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𝐁𝐢𝐨: Reid Schwartz is an artist and interested human – He has been carving wood for most of his life and making tools for over 15 years. His explorations into traditional woodland crafts have grown into a passion for the tools and technologies of first nations makers from around the world. Reid lives on his family sheep-farm in New Hampshire. He keeps a modest, hand-oriented workshop in a barn on the property and harvests material to carve in the surrounding hills.
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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: This course covers the basics of forging, heat-treatment and sharpening of simple and effective woodcarving tools. Students will produce their own straight as well as bent blades, shape and mount their own handles and then put them to use carving freshly-harvested wood.
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In depth discussions will include practical approaches to metallurgy, edge geometry for woodworking, handle ergonomics, as well as the opportunities and limitations of working with green-wood. The carving portion of the course will focus on safe knife grips, spoon design, and how to acquire and break down fresh rounds of timber into usable pieces. Students will leave with tools they made and knowledge of how to maintain them and use them. Intended as a beginner level course with enough information and challenge to keep an intermediate smith interested.
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𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: Salem Straub - @salemstraub
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: Mosaic Composite Pattern Welding
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 Dates: August 16th-27th
𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: No
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𝐁𝐢𝐨: Salem is a full time Washington State based bladesmith and teacher, specializing in culinary knives, daggers, and various integral forged blades. My main areas of interest are in the historical work of Europe and Asia, in vivid and interesting materials, and in exploring new boundaries in all styles of pattern welding. I've been making knives since 2004 and plan to continue until I can't pick up a hammer.

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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Class will include discussion of pattern welding theory, such as reverse engineering of mosaic damascus patterns, and subsequent application in pattern development. Instructor demonstration and hands-on creation by students will cover pattern elements and types of distortion effects, and composition of pattern welded elements into the larger context of workpieces. Mosaic tiling, twisted edge bar treatments, birdsbeak welds, and added integral fittings will be discussed, demonstrated and practiced. Students will apply directly into hands-on work on personal billets and blades.

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Scholarships Available Link in bio Were excited

Scholarships Available
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Were excited to offer scholarships for three of our new extended 2021 workshops. Application deadline is February 1st and coming up quick. Apply now to work with one of our talented visiting instructors for an in-depth hands on learning experience about their process and aesthetic. All relevant workshop info can be found on our website, centerformetalarts.org

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𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: Addison de Lisle - @de_lisle_iron
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: Fearless Forge Welding
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: June 7th-11th
𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: Yes
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𝐁𝐢𝐨: Addison de Lisle earned his BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry at the Maine College of Art in 2011. After a class at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft, he was inspired to learn more about blacksmithing and apprenticed at Wilson Forge on Little Deer Isle, Maine. In 2014 he was awarded a year-long fellowship in architectural ironwork at the Fondation de Coubertin in France. Following this program he enrolled in the graduate program for Blacksmithing and Metalsmithing at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he received his MFA in Blacksmithing and Metalsmithing in 2018.

de Lisle exhibits work nationally and internationally, and has participated in workshops at numerous major craft centers including Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, the National Ornamental Metals Museum, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is a Professor of Blacksmithing at the American College of the Building Arts and maintains an independent studio practice in Charleston, South Carolina.
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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Forge-welding is a technique almost as old as blacksmithing itself and excels at joining parts with minimal cleanup and pleasing visual character. It can be intimidating due to the temperatures required, but with practice it will become a routine part of your process.
In addition to exploring different types of welds, we will also discuss how forge-welding can be used as a design choice. Class time will be spent both making forge-welding samples and executing a self-designed piece.
Students should expect to leave feeling more comfortable with forge welding both as a technique, as a design element, and with a familiarity with the use of a coal forge.

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