Two master blacksmiths will demonstrate their traditional skills at Timberline Lodge, August 10th and 11th.
Darryl Nelson and Joe Vachon, two members of local mountain non-profit organization, Cascadia Center for Arts and Crafts (CCAC), will be at the Ullman Patio both days from 11am-3pm. The CCAC is celebrating its 20th year of blacksmithing and metal arts programming in Government Camp, OR.
Darryl Nelson is a master blacksmith of Eatonville, WA and a founder of the CCAC’s blacksmith program. His public works are featured throughout Timberline Lodge. As a full time blacksmith for 53 years, Nelson teaches the traditional craft as well as sells his pieces at several locations. He’s taught and demonstrated in 21 US states and Canada. His work can also be found at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati OH, the National Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis TN, and the Globe Theater London, England UK. Nelson is the founder and board member for Farriers Association of Washington State, Northwest Blacksmith Association, and served on board for Artists Blacksmith Association of North America.
Awarded the 1986 British Artists Blacksmith Association “Wally Award,” 2012 Artist Blacksmith Association of North America’s “Alex Bealer Award,” 2015 Clackamas County Mount Hood Territory “Chairman’s Award.” Featured in PBS documentaries, “Great Lodges” and “Craft in America,” OPB’s “Oregon Field Guide” and Portland Monthly January 2012.
Joe Vachon is an active blacksmithing and bladesmithing instructor and board member for the CCAC. He started his career in 2007 at the age of 23 on a permaculture farm in NH where he created a multi forge teaching facility. Two years later, he hit the road in a retired veggie oil-powered school bus that served as his home and mobile shop to explore the West (and as far south as Guatemala) as a self-employed off-grid blacksmith dedicated to the exclusive use of scrap steels to make functional art. 9-years later he and his wife put roots down in Goldendale, WA, where Vachon continues to make a living as a blacksmith and bladesmith. He is still dedicated to scrap steel usage, and utilizing waste veggie oil as a fuel in a custom made forge furnace. Fun fact: In 2019 he won the History Channel’s Season 6, Ep.27 “Forged in Fire” bladesmithing competition.
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