Elyria native Merritt James Geddes collects scrap metal and turns the forgotten parts into pieces of art. Geddes said he has been creating art since he was a child. “I started at a really young age ...

He may not have attended art school or received any formal training, but Iraqi artist Abdul Qader al-Na'ib has managed to build a reputation as the man who turns scrap metal into art. This workshop in ...

The heavy beasts look like they’re up for a scrap – scrap metal, that is. These sculptures are the work of artist John Lopez who welds the pieces from abandoned farm machinery. Based in Lemmon, South ...

PALOS PARK, Ill. -- Like a modern-day Geppetto, Steve Kost articulated a scrap metal marionette he created at his home in Palos Park. It's one of many creations the ironworker and combat veteran has ...

Nov. 9—MOSES LAKE — The organizers of the scrap metal art competition work to make it a challenge. That was the lesson of the oxygen tank that attracted the attention of the team from Pasco. The ...

A pile of distorted metal, a frazzle of cable – sculptor Karl Stirner finds beauty in detritus. Still working at 92, he salvages metal from Bethlehem Steel, the junkyard, shipyards, auctions, flea ...

ARVILLA, N.D. -- Cliff Haugen is an iron man. Hundreds of metal sculptures representing every kind of plant, animal or inanimate object imaginable decorate his farmstead and fields. Pieces from grass ...

Roger Dorsey is a heavy metal artist. He finds inspiration in scrap yards. In fact, he's a regular at Frank Sahd Salvage Center in Columbia, where workers sometimes set aside interesting pieces of -- ...

Judy Hagen can't get her mother to stop working. Hazel Keen, 94, has been staying with Hagen and her husband, Lou, at their Long Neck home. But their home isn't just a house; in the back, it's an art ...