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2022 Workshops are open for enrollment! Link in ou

2022 Workshops are open for enrollment! Link in our bio.

Five Days Left to Apply! - Deadline: November 28t

Five Days Left to Apply! - Deadline: November 28th, 2021, Updated Pricing, Dates, and Interest Form on our website. Spots still available for week-long, two-week long, and month-long opportunities.
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Center for Metal Arts is excited to offer short-term residency opportunities. Designed for highly self-motivated blacksmiths looking to focus on their work and further develop their voice as a craftsperson. This opportunity will give you the chance to work freely in our classroom on projects that you choose. Use this time to explore new ideas in your work or collaborate with a peer. This residency provides the blacksmithing community with a one-of-a-kind forging facility in which to learn and network along a diverse group of smiths. Having access to new and different tools can provide growth within your work.
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You could use this time to immerse yourself in the Cambria Iron Company, a mill that was at the forefront of the Steel making industry in America. The Blacksmith Shop, a national historic landmark, still houses many of the forging tools made by the blacksmiths that worked there. This is an incredible resource for anyone interested in the history of our craft.
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We encourage blacksmiths at all stages in their career to complete the interest form on our website, link in our bio. Staying true to our mission in trying to reach the broadest possible audience, we hope this opportunity will create a small group of like-minded people, creating new and revisiting old friendships. The residency is scheduled to provide you with the option to stay for one, two or four weeks. Registration and housing fees can be found on our website, housing is for a private room with shared facilities. Food is not provided, but there is a full kitchen in CMA House for you to use. Shop time will be 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. There will be a studio monitor present at all times. If you have any questions regarding the residency, please email us at contact@centerformetalarts.org.

Bicycle frame building is underway with @mothattac

Bicycle frame building is underway with @mothattack. Students are busy brazing samples before building their actual frame!

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@angerknives and @benknives demonstration for our

@angerknives and @benknives demonstration for our class this week!

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Getting underway! Collaborative sculpture with @j

Getting underway!
Collaborative sculpture with @jakeblacksmith

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The 2021 Forging Focus was an absolute blast! Soli

The 2021 Forging Focus was an absolute blast! Solid group of students ready to tackle any forging challenge they were presented.

We covered so much in this workshop from forging fundamentals at the anvil and power hammer, tool making, joinery, architectural, and bench work!

Feeling very proud of all that the students accomplished this year. Impressed at how well everybody did even in the face of very challenging forgings.
this group came hear with the best attitude which is Imperative for a quality learning experience!

Thank you all for making this year an epic six weeks! Thanks to Dan, Courtney, Logan, & Harry for all you did to ensure a smooth six weeks!

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Sam, working on the pre-form before going into the

Sam, working on the pre-form before going into the die on the final project during the forging focus.

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@halingwdwang and @stowell.logan working on creati

@halingwdwang and @stowell.logan working on creating come power hammer swage tools during a demonstration for this years Forging Focus Workshop!
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Just wrapped up a 1 week toolmaking workshop with

Just wrapped up a 1 week toolmaking workshop with @john_williams_of_guildwerks.

John is one of the finest forging instructors to host a workshop At CMA! I was an absolute pleasure to have him in the shop for a week and his class was too notch! Thank you my friend.

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@john_williams_of_guildwerks is forging some tooli

@john_williams_of_guildwerks is forging some tooling in the shop today for his upcoming workshop!
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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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