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from CORE to SURFACE call for submissions The mis

from CORE to SURFACE call for submissions

The mission of this exhibition is to showcase the broad range of what forging can offer from a sculptural and functional perspective or a combination of the two.
This exhibition seeks people active in the craft whose work displays a keen sense of design and technique.

Deadline April 28th

Scan the QR code to apply or follow the link in our bio! 📸 @jarrod_from_hope

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Get to know our instructor Jesse Savage Did you k

Get to know our instructor Jesse Savage

Did you know his favorite creations are utilitarian decorative forgings? Read the slides to find out more.
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Also, check out his workshop along with Carrie Savage, Blacksmithing Basics: Bottle Opener on April 29th, August 19th
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Instructor Spotlight: Pete Matilla Workshop Name:

Instructor Spotlight: Pete Matilla

Workshop Name: IRON FORM DEVELOPMENT: Design-visual Rhythm and Contemporary Insights into the Vocabulary of Steel

Workshop Dates: September 11th - 22nd

Spots Available: No

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Bio: Currently based in lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia. My work celebrates complex histories, in art, craft, and design as well as in industrial expression. While simultaneously identifying the practice and understanding of craft in terms of social consciousness, the expression of an ethical life through the immediate relationship between hand and mind, and the interrelationship between the physical world and intention. The material processes used to imply an encapsulated visual dialogue of energy and motion. Articulating movement through the use of steel on steel, with a constant observation of the visual and structural vocabulary specific to metalworking process.

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Workshop Description: This workshop is an intensive practical study on forged and fabricated form development.

Focusing on design compositions, such as repetition, line, space, and mass. Utilizing concepts of action, movement, and the inherent relationships between elements through their connections as a visual dialogue. Inserting a radical creative process of ideologies, intuitive motion, and making as thinking. We will unravel these design processes during the heat of practice as well as through daily discussions and the journey of making.

The session will entail a team build of a large-scale Sculpture that will encapsulate the design elements and ideologies discussed aiming to open the door of creativity for the participants’ future endeavors.

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Instructor Spotlight: Michael Barton Workshop Na

Instructor Spotlight: Michael Barton

Workshop Name: Forging Fundamentals

Workshop Dates: August 26th - 27th

Spots Available: Yes

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Bio: I am an Automotive Engineer by trade, and an avid hobby blacksmith. My first love is tool making and I am very interested in sculptural forging (I am early in this journey). I Co-Lead a weekly Forging introduction program “Open Forge” introducing forging to people with little experience. I often connect best with students that want to understand the “why” and are looking for knowledge and skills that have wide applicability. I have conducted multiple hammer and tool forging workshops at my shop in Ravenna, OH and have led forging/fabrication workshops including Stock rests, belt grinders, and Guillotine Tools. I frequently demonstrate at club activities and Conferences. I have attended multiple workshops at CMA , including Deadman Stock Rest, Tool Making, Power Hammer Techniques, Jake James’ Sculpture and Zach Noble’s Sculpture. I have been on the receiving end of CMA’s Teaching and am looking forward to becoming a contributor.

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Workshop Description: In this two-day workshop we will discuss and use the basic fundamental concepts of forging in a general terms, focusing on the “how” and the “why”. These concepts include, terminology, differing hammer blows and when to use them, tapering, drawing, set-downs, isolations and more.

The ideal student for this workshop is someone who may not have lots of forging experience, but has a genuine curiosity of the how and why. This course is for people that don’t just want to watch a YouTube tutorial on the steps associated with making something but want to understand a series of basic forging techniques that can be applied to various different projects.

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Our student tool rack is always growing at @center

Our student tool rack is always growing at @centerformetalarts and with help from generous supporters like Glosser Steel we get deliveries like this that continue to improve our students’ experience.

All this material will turn into student tools and be available for the students to use when learning how to safely and efficiently run power hammers and make tools of their own.

Hope to see you this summer for a workshop! Come check out all the amazing classroom upgrades we have made and installed at the end of 2022!

Cheers!

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Get to know our instructor Elizabeth Brim Did you

Get to know our instructor Elizabeth Brim

Did you know she draws her inspiration from her upbringing? Her mother and grandmother sewed. They made frilly dresses for her and her sister. Elizabeth is known for making things that look like fabric.

Read the slides to find out more

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Also, check out her workshop Red Hot Basics: Beginning Blacksmithing on April 3rd-7th

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Instructor Spotlight: Nick Rossi Workshop Name: C

Instructor Spotlight: Nick Rossi

Workshop Name: Complete Pattern Welded Chef Knife

Workshop Dates: August 7th - 11th

Spots Available: Yes

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Bio: Nick Rossi has been making knives since 1998 and has taught bladesmithing since 2006. Drawing inspiration from traditional forging techniques Nick uses simple tooling and direct methods to make unique, high performance knives that will last generations. Nick has taught hundreds of workshops all over the country and greatly enjoys sharing the joy of making a high performance tool from raw materials.

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Workshop Description: In this workshop students will complete one 7-8” pattern welded western style chef knife from start to finish. Every aspect of the process will be covered in detail such as material selection, pattern welding(Damascus), chef knife design theory, hidden tang handle construction and much more. This workshop will be equally helpful to intermediate makers seeking to streamline their process and design as well as seasoned beginners with some forging experience who want to try something new. Prior forging experience is recommended.

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Instructor Spotlight: Matt Jenkins Workshop Name:

Instructor Spotlight: Matt Jenkins

Workshop Name: Forging Focus

Workshop Dates: June 19th – July 28th

Spots Available: Yes

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Bio: Matt Jenkins spent childhood watching his father craft the world around him. As a young adult, he worked beside his dad in the blacksmith shop at Lower Fort Garry. Having picked up a hammer up at an early age, Matt feels at home standing next to an anvil. Over the past 25 years, he has honed his skills by learning traditional blacksmith techniques while studying under master smiths around North America. Matt competed and placed at the World Forging Championship in Stia, Italy, in 2009 and 2015.

In 2016, Matt tested his forging and design skills by making a unique hook each day of the year. Using handtools and early industrial equipment, Matt creates designs with the timeless feel of handmade work. When he is not working in his shop, he is teaching and sharing his knowledge of the craft.

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Workshop Description: Forging technique and tooling is the key to quality work. Whether you’re interested in sculpture, toolmaking, architectural work or anything in between, this intensive workshop is a six-week course that covers a broad range of forging techniques both at the anvil and the power hammer. Strong emphasis will be placed on toolmaking and how those forgings and techniques are beneficial to all other areas of blacksmithing. Students will use these tools and others to execute a variety of forging and joinery projects that will illustrate proper tool usage and care.

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Instructor Spotlight: Haley Woodward Workshop Nam

Instructor Spotlight: Haley Woodward

Workshop Name: Introduction to Tool Making

Workshop Dates: June 5th - 9th

Spots Available: No

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Bio: Haley is a blacksmith and educator. He started working with metal in undergrad before moving to Austin, Texas, focusing his time on learning blacksmithing at Austin Community College (ACC). While in Austin and attending ACC, Haley worked in residential construction as a welder, and helped found the metalworking collective, The Austin Metal Authority. In 2014 Haley finished his graduate degree from SIU Carbondale and returned to Austin where he now runs the blacksmithing program at ACC and maintains his own studio practice, focusing on forged sculpture and utilitarian objects.

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Workshop Description: This workshop is an introduction to toolmaking for the blacksmith. Starting with tongs, punches, and drifts, each new tool and concept will help us make the next, concluding with handled set tools and a forging hammer. A detailed discussion of tool steels and heat treatment practices will be a major component of this workshop. Look forward to making your own tools and understanding the process for making more tools in the future.

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Call for Entry is open for from Core to Surface 20

Call for Entry is open for from Core to Surface 2023. Application closes April 28th, 2023.
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Forging can be both incredibly technical and self-expressive. The combination of the two is what makes it such an exciting process for both artists and craftspeople working in the field today.
The mission of this exhibition is to showcase the broad range of what forging can offer from a sculptural and functional perspective or a combination of the two. Design and execution go hand-in-hand whether the work is functional or sculptural; the two concepts struggle to exist independently. This exhibition seeks people active in the craft whose work displays a keen sense of design and technique. Evaluation and acceptance of submissions will be strongly influenced by a demonstration of this harmony between the two in their work.
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Jurors: Rebekah Frank, Greg Gehner, Pete Mattila (Visit our website (centerformetalarts.org) to learn more about our jurors!)
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Exhibition Dates: September 4th - 29th at Center for Metal Arts (The exhibition will be both in-person and virtual on our website)
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Eligibility:
We welcome submissions from artists and crafts people regardless of whether they are inspired by traditional or contemporary work, functional or sculptural, both small and large. Submissions should contain and be inspired by some aspect of the forging process and embody aspects of the craft. Pieces must be forged or have forged elements. Work must not weigh more than 100 pounds. Pieces must be able to fit through a 32" door.
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Link in our bio to apply!
Photo Credit: @jarrod_from_hope
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Instructor Spotlight: Salem Straub @salemstraub W

Instructor Spotlight: Salem Straub
@salemstraub

Workshop Name: Mosaic Composite Pattern Welding

Workshop Dates: May 22nd - June 2nd

Spots Available: yes

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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. His 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. He has been making knives since 2004 and plans to continue until he can’t pick up a hammer.

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Workshop Description: This 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, as well as composition of pattern welded elements into the larger context of workpieces.

Mosaic tiling, twisted edge bar treatments, birds-beak 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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Get to know our instructor Caitlin Morris. Did y

Get to know our instructor Caitlin Morris.

Did you know her favorite creations are "stuff with no function"? Read the slides to find out more.
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Also, check out her workshop Smithin' Made Simple on April 8th & 9th.

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History Highlight: The Rolling Mill Office The C

History Highlight: The Rolling Mill Office

The Cambria Iron Company built this building to serve as an office for their rolling mill operations circa 1874. It originally had a gable roof, windows with gothic brick arches, and a wrought iron staircase covered by a wooden cupola.
In 2022 Center for Metal Arts hosted the from Core to Surface exhibition that featured current forged metalwork. The mission of this exhibition was to showcase the broad range of what forging can offer from a sculptural and functional perspective or a combination of the two.

Illustration and Photo Credits: Library of Congress

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We are hiring! The Center for Metal Arts is seekin

We are hiring! The Center for Metal Arts is seeking a qualified Office Manager to join our team.

The Office Manager is an experienced, reliable, and task-oriented professional. This position will report directly to the Executive Director and will be responsible for performing a number of administrative duties as needed. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, has excellent written and communication skills, demonstrates accuracy and efficiency in office work, and has strong administrative, organizational, and customer service skills.

For the full job description and application, follow the link in our bio.

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Instructor Spotlight: Peter Braspenninx @phyreforg

Instructor Spotlight: Peter Braspenninx @phyreforge

Workshop Name: Zen and the Art of Hammer Swinging

Workshop Dates: May 15th - 19th

Spots Available: No

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Bio: Pete 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: This class will focus on the question why. Why in concept, and why in process. Through instructor led assignments we will cover a variety of techniques and design methods to ask the question, why are you doing that? To find the most direct way to construct and articulate our ideas.

We will be using hand forging techniques with power hammer assistance. Primarily coal forge work for the options it allows in process.

This class is structured so that there will be time for a final project/exploratory forging at the end of the week. So that based on the information presented, we can apply the lessons to a design of your own voice.

Bring your ideas, an open mind, and a sketchbook. Let’s forge around, and find out.

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CMA Winter Residency! What a wonderful month at

CMA Winter Residency!

What a wonderful month at CMA and the best way to start a new year! The workshop was full of creative people, working together, pushing themselves as individual blacksmiths, and creating wonderful functional and artistic forge work! It was sad to say goodbye but we’re excited about this upcoming workshop season and next years residency!

This was the perfect way to break in our new Anyang 178 hammers in the classroom, I couldn’t be happier and the residents loved them! They really transform the CMA forging classroom and increase student, resident, and instructor capability!

Thanks to all who participated, applied, and support CMA’s educational efforts! Cheers to 2023. 🥂

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CMA Winter Residency Highlights #cmawinterreside

CMA Winter Residency Highlights

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Instructor Spotlight: Stephen Yusko Workshop name

Instructor Spotlight: Stephen Yusko

Workshop name: All Together Now

Workshop Dates: May 1st - 5th

Spots Available: Yes

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Bio: Stephen’s studio is located in Cleveland, OH, where he creates objects using mixed materials combined with forged, machined and fabricated steel. Yusko has taught at several schools and universities, including Haystack, Penland, and SUNY Purchase, where he was a Windgate Artist-in-Residence; and served on the Board of Trustees for Haystack. He is currently on the Board of Trustees for La Caravana Escuela. Yusko has exhibited his work widely including the Metal Museum and the Ruthin Craft Centre and has received three Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Awards and a Cuyahoga County Creative Workforce Fellowship Award.

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Workshop Description: This workshop will focus on exploring materials and ideas in unexpected ways to create sculptures and sculptural elements—along with a functional object or two. Topics covered will include forging solid bar and tubing, forming methods for sheet and plate, developing patterns/textures using found and forged materials. We will then work with joinery methods to combine/connect these elements.

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CMA Winter residency highlights #cmawinterresidenc

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Instructors Spotlight: Jesse & Carrie Savage Work

Instructors Spotlight: Jesse & Carrie Savage

Workshop Name: Introduction to Forging – Fire Poker

Workshop Dates: April 30th, August 20th

Spots Available: Yes

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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.

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Workshop Description: During this one-day workshop students will experience a great hands-on introduction to forging while creating their very own fire pokers.

This exercise covers several skills necessary to build a foundation on which to start forging and is a great experience for anyone interested in trying their hand at the craft. Skills that will be covered include but aren’t limited to, tapering, scrolling, forming, twisting, and texturing. Different poker terminations as well as handles will be demonstrated, and students can expect to try their hand at several styles.

This tool is great for tending your backyard fire or keeping the fireplace or wood stove warm in the winter. A hand forged fire poker makes a great conversation piece while sitting around the fire spending time with friends and family or is a great gift for the fire enthusiast in your life.

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