Blacksmithing with Mike Rossi

July 31- August 3

Cost: $525

register online at: brynathyn.edu/workshops

By combining simple forging techniques, each student will build
a versatile base of knowledge. Students will complete one or
two projects, while pushing themselves to develop a forging
vocabulary.

Mike Rossi studied blacksmithing at Northern Michigan
University and Cranbrook Academy of Art; additionally, he
apprenticed to several metalworkers around the country. He
has exhibited abroad and throughout the United States at

the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, the National
Ornamental Metals Museum in Memphis, and the Target
Gallery in Alexandria, VA, in addition to several private
galleries. He has taught at Penland School of Craft, Kalamazoo
College, and Ox-Bow School of Art; and has served as a
resident artist at Haystack Mountain School of Craft. Mike is
the principal of Rossi Metal Design, an architectural metalwork
and sculpture studio based in West Philadelphia.