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VIDEO: The Art of Blacksmithing

JP Coleman, WTNH News 8 Photojournalist and Dylan Hyman, wtnh.com Staff

wtnhIt’s hot, it’s loud, and a bit dirty, but one Connecticut artist says it’s all he has ever known.

Mace Vitale is a blacksmith at the Guilford Art Center. Mace says that while some believe blacksmithing is a dying art, it is actually very much a modern technology, “Blacksmithing has been on the cutting edge of technology since the very beginning and it still is today.”

(Watch the video and read more here)