Related Web Sites
Designed / Contributed to by Darrell Markewitz
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| The Dark Ages
Re-creation Company seeks
to create an environment that stresses historic re-creation of the
Viking
Age through the use of strict authenticity guidelines and
interpretation
at a 'role playing' level. The Company intends to provide a resource of
skilled and experienced historic interpreters and physical
demonstrators
to museums and educational programs. Find out more about
DARC
ww.darkcompany.ca Web site
design by Neil Peterson
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The artists of An
Droichead - The Bridge are
a group of artisans of divergent media and shared out look who are
inspired
by Celtic historical traditions. The work that they create utilizes the
age old techniques and tools of enamelling, stone carving, stained
glass,
silversmithing and blacksmithing.
(Note - this takes you off the main Wareham Forge site.) An Droichead web site design by Catherine Crowe |
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| Ontario Artist Blacksmith Association is
an expanding group of individuals, centered in Ontario, who are
interested in all aspects of Blacksmithing and related skills. Their
monthly
meetings welcome any potential new members. A great place to start
contacting working smiths. |
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VIRTUAL EXHIBITS
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| Grave Goods is the third exhibit
at the Woodstock Museum. Under planning now, it is scheduled to open September
6, 2008 and run through to November 1. Currently seeking participating artists! For information on the exhibit and submission requirements, go on HERE. |
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Out of the Fiery Furnace was the second juried exibit I curated at the Woodstock Museum in September - October, 2005 . Each of the contributing artists must have personally manipulated materials at high temperatures during the creation process. Individual works are produced from forged steels and bronze, blown and lamp worked glass, cast and fused metals. Go to the Virtual Tour of the Exhibit |
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The World of the
Norse was a major project I undertook from April
to October 2003. This 1000 square foot exhibit was commissioned by the Cranbrook
Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills MI. It consisted of
three realistic room settings containing about 175 individual replica
objects that portray daily life in the Viking Age. Go to the Virtual Tour of the Exhibit.
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Reflections of the Conquest was a juried exibit I curated in February - March, 2002 at the Woodstock Museum. Artists were presented with the striking imagery of the Bayeux Tapestry as well as encouraged to step outside the framework of the Tapestry itself to consider the historic cultural traditions of the various peoples who were directly involved: Anglo Saxon, Viking and French. Go to the Virtual Tour of the Exhibit |
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Traditions and Innovations was a special group show organized and curated by my friend Catherine Crowe in 2003. It featued recent work by eight Ontario artisans, mainly drawn from the 'celtic underground'. Thise related web site was the first virtual tour package I designed. Go to the Virtual Tour of the Exhibit |
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ARTICLES & CONVERSATIONS
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In winter of 2006 I decided to start
a BLOG. This will allow me to publish, and more importantly archive
many of the long detailed e-mail descriptions I write in the responce
to questions every week. The primary focus of Hammered
Out Bits, are topics that relate to the Viking
Age, blacksmithing and experimental iron smelting.
(Note - this takes
you off
the main Wareham Forge site.) |
Hammered Out Bits...
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| I get a lot of
requests for practical information on
various crafts
techniques and information related to the Viking Age. I have started a
separate 'Geocities' site that will gather a number of short articles,
sources, and such together in a simple text format. ROUGH
FORGED allows me to post up material
quickly - but as the
name suggests, don't expect much polish! (Note -
this takes
you off
the main Wareham Forge site.)
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