This episode is a quick interview with Ellen Durkan.  I asked her 20 questions to learn some juicy tidbits about Ellen in a short amount of time, in under 10 minutes!

What juicy little tidbits are they?

·    What food does she eat that she is ashamed of

·    How many pairs of tings she owns

·    Has she ever hit herself with her hammer

·    What 3 words she used to describe herself

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Ellen Durkan is an artist blacksmith and a part time professor at the Delaware College of Art and Design.  She runs her business called Iron Maiden Forge with commissioned work and from her website, www.ellendurkan.com. 

Links:

Ellen Durkans Website  - http://www.ellendurkan.com/forged-fashion.html

Ellen’s Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ellen.durkan.7?fref=ts

TED Talk on YouTube - http://youtu.be/wCIAtJnxxlQ

Ellen's Iron Maiden Runway Show video - http://youtu.be/WPuzlIj9KOg

What we talked about:

Her Fashion Runway Show at the Delaware Art Museum that showcased 6 of her metal dresses, she is having two more runway shows that includes performances from other artists in Philly or Baltimore.

Iron Maiden Forge is her business and she talks about her goals for growing it

She is currently in 3 boutique stores

An Artist residency that went downhill in upstate NY that led to an online business carrying her jewelry

We talked about how she hears about exhibitions and commissions

How well her website shop is doing

Ellen told us about her TED talk in Baltimore 2013

What she thinks about Etsy

Her Paris Fashion Week corset commission

Tells us about her shop, what’s in it and her new tool that weighs 3000 lbs

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I was able to have a quick interview with Heather while she was in California and I in Colorado.  I asked her 20 questions to learn some juicy tidbits about Heather in a short amount of time.  If you want to hear more from Heather listen to our hour long interview the BlacksmitHER.com website.

What juicy little tidbits are they?

·    Why does her anvil horn point to the right?

·    She prefers teaching over selling her art

·    What she can't help but spend money on

·    What blacksmith (dead or alive) she would spend a day with learning from

Heather Mclarty has spent the last 20 plus years establishing herself as a well-known artist and craftsperson.  Her work has been selected for public parks and national art exhibitions.  Heather’s blacksmith shop is in a tipi in Los Angeles, CA.  She is also very accomplished with the repousse and high relief chasing techniques, which she teaches in classes across the country.  She continues to explore the endless ways to transform hard, industrial materials into lively, organic pieces of sculpture and functional art.
 
After learning steel fabrication as a props artisan in the theater industry she began working backwards technologically. Heather uses a mixture of modern and ancient methods to create her pieces.
 
 She has a special affinity for sheet work, particularly repousse and high relief chasing. In 2001 she won a CBA grant to study high relief chasing with Kirsten Skiles at the Campbell Folk School.   After winning a Bedayn grant in 2005 she spent several transformative weeks in the Czech Republic and studied Louis XVI ornament and tooling from the master smith Alfred Habermann. In May of 2010 I traveled to Ivano-Frankivsk to participate and exhibit in the Union of Ukrainian Blacksmiths Festival with blacksmiths from around the globe.

Heather’s links:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/hamclarty?fref=ts

Steel Crazy Website: http://www.steelcrazy.biz/steelcrazy/steelcrazy.html

Adams Forge Website: http://www.adamsforge.org/Adams_Forge/WELCOME.html

Heather Youtube Repousse video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRSrB_LP5rM

Heather’s video about the Occidental College gate she made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszVY2F6K-4

What We Talked About:

·   Her blacksmithing and repousse teaching and how she started

·   Her business model and how she prices her work…..very interesting

·   How she keeps herself physically fit

·   Glass and Steel - together

·   A very impressive #3 Chambersberg power hammer at Adams Forge from the LA Fire Department, how much did they pay for it??????  

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Lisa Geertsen is an artist blacksmith in Seattle, Wa. She owns and operates Firelight Forge, located in the Equinox Studios building in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood. Firelight Forge operates solely on custom commissions ranging from architectural work to sculpture.  In 2013 she accepted the position of Metal and Stone Studio Manager at Pratt Fine Arts Center in addition to the classes she teaches there regularly.

Lisa's Links:

Firelight Forge Website

Lisa’s Pratt Fine Arts email - [email protected]

Facebook page

Instagram - firelightforge

Pratt Fine Arts Center Blacksmithing classes, Seattle,Washington - http://www.pratt.org/classes/class-subject/subject-blacksmithing/

This episode is a quick interview with Lisa Geertsen.  I asked her 20 questions to learn some juicy tidbits about Lisa in a short amount of time, in under 10 minutes!

What juicy little tidbits are they?

Lisa Geertsen's website is here, check it out!

Valerie Ostenak, an award-winning jeweler, is a blacksmith and silversmith, creating fine sculptural jewelry using the centuries-old techniques of forging and weaving.  she is also the editor for the ABANA magazine publication the "Anvil's Ring".

This episode is a quick interview with Valerie Ostenak.  I asked her 20 questions to learn some juicy tidbits about Valerie in a short amount of time, in under 10 minutes!

What juicy little tidbits are they?

·    What time of day when she is the most creative

·    What her favorite smell is in the shop

·    What her most unusual job was

·    The most interesting thing in her purse

This is episode talks about the "Why", the "What" and the "Who" of BlacksmitHER Radio.

·    Why did I start the BlacksmitHER Radio podcast - the mission

·    What the podcast is about

·    Who will be interviewed in the podcasts

This episode is a quick interview with Corrina Sephora Mensoff.  I asked her 20 questions to learn some juicy tidbits about Corrina in a short amount of time, in under 10 minutes!

What juicy little tidbits are they?

·         Where she has hit herself with her hammer

·         Her most unusual job that involved a 3000 lb sculpture she made

·         What blacksmith (dead or alive) would she spend a day learning from

·         Her favorite smell in her shop