[TheForge] Q&A

[Ries Niemi]

On Oct 29, 2005, at 11:43 AM, schade at acegroup.cc wrote:
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> blacksmiths in college........ what a country!
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> Bob

I assume you are talking about ours?
Because I know a whole bunch of blacksmiths with graduate degrees in 
blacksmithing- Carbondale, aka Southern Illinios, offers an MFA in 
blacksmithing, and I know several guys who got their masters there as 
long ago as the late 70's. Most notably Phillip Baldwin and Daryl 
Meiers.  So we have around 25 years of college educated blacksmiths 
afoot here at home. Several community colleges around the country also 
offer extensive blacksmithing classes- its hard to throw a rock in 
Austin Texas, for example, without hitting someone with a 2 year degree 
in blacksmithing. I meet young blacksmiths all the time up here in the 
northwest with recent degrees from Carbondale. At the Richmond Kentucky 
ABANA conference, the whole grad department was there, along with a 
bunch of recent grads.


Ries Niemi
Industrial Artist

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