About Sergey Sakirkin.

    I was born and raised in the former and no-longer-existent Soviet Union. I also received my formal artist training as a painter and designer in the Soviet Union. One day in 1988, I opened the door to a blacksmith shop and almost instantly fell in love with the musical ring of the anvil, the heavy booming sound of the hammer, and the mesmerizing flame of the forge. To this day, the magical feeling has not left me — not in the least.

  Combining my experience as an art designer with the tremendous pos-sibilities of an ageless material like steel, I try to bring joy to people who appreciate metal art, while at the same time leaving a lasting legacy behind.

  I like this “functional” art very much, and enjoy creating art pieces that people can come in contact with every single day, either by touching or by visually seeing its elegant beauty. If such an art piece is really well forged, then every time someone sees or touches it, happy emotions are born and, I like to think, are passed on to others.

  Sergey currently is a member of Blacksmith Guild of Russian Federation, Artist Blacksmith Association of North America (ABANA) and National Ornamental & Miscellaneous Metals Association (NOMMA). He is a winner of 2010 Mitch Heitler Award for Excellence, the highest nomination of the NOMMA’s yearly competition among metal fabricators in the US, Canada, Mexico and other countries.

  Since 2002, Sergey has been living and working in Salt Lake City, Utah US,  creating hand-forged artistic work for private residences through out the country. He is artist/owner of Sakirkin Blacksmith Art & Design Inc.

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Bibliography:

Paul Boulay, "Gallery: ABANA Conference SLC 2016," The Anvil's Ring, Winter 2017, Vol. 45, No. 1, photos pp. 2, 20, 21, 34, 38.

Linda M. Erbele, "Make it Like This, But Different," Metal Fabricator, September/October 2015, Cover photo, pp. 38, 39, 41, 43, 45, color photos.

Top Job Gallery, "Best in Class Interior Railings," Fabricator, March/April 2015, Vol.56, No.2, p.49.

"The Gallery," The Anvil's Ring, Winter 2015, Vol.43, No.1,p.

Sergey Sakirkin, "One Piece at a Time," The Anvil's Ring, Fall 2013. Vol. 41, No. 4, pp.36-39, color photos.

Lisa Bakewell, "Serge's Forging Excellence," Fabricator, September/October 2010, Vol. 51, No. 5, Cover photo, pp. 40, 41,43, 44, 45, color photos.

Sergey Sakirkin, "Profile," The Anvil's Ring, Spring 2010, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 20-25, color photos.

Katie Drake, "Forging a future for Old Word art," The Salt Lake Tribune, April 10, 2010.

Clark Bartley, "The Difference Is In The Details," Salt Lake Living, Fall 2008, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 18 -19.

Clark Bartley, "The Rebirth of Blacksmithing," DCD HOME. Park City & Deer Valley, Summer/Fall 2008, pp. 14-15.

Clark Bartley, "Forging Art With Flame & Flair!," Salt Lake Living, May/June 2008, Vol.29, No. 3, p. 18.

Sergey Sakirkin, "Wild West by Looking Of Korchevnik," Mir Metalla (World Of Metal), St. Petersburg, Russia, Aprel/June 2008, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp.60-62.

Charley Miller, "Forging Ahead," DCD HOME. Park City/Deer Valley, Winter/Spring 2008, Vol. 3, pp. 30-33.

Dona Z. Meilach, Ironwork: Dynamic Details, Schiffer Publishers, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2007, color photos pp. 12, 61, 118, 132-134, 136.

Erin Moore,"House Of Worship," Utah Stile & Design, Summer 2007, Vol. 11, No. 3, color photo pp. 112-113.

Dona Z. Meilach, Ironwork Today Inside & Out, Schiffer Publishers, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2006, color photos pp. 58, 72, 83

Ann Getz Zimmerman, "Inspired Living," Utah Stile & Design, Summer 2006, Vol. 10, No. 3, color photos pp. 128-129.

Marshall Bulle and Bruce Honts, Ornamental Design and Guide Book, Shop Outfitters, Colorado City, Colorado 2005, color photos pp. 134, 137, 208.

Melissa Fields, "Metal Master," Utah Stile & Design, Summer 2005, Vol. 9, No. 3, color photo p. 45.

Richard Prazen, "Gallery," The Anvil's Ring, Summer 2005, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 32-35, color photos.

Brad Mee, "Timeless Tradition," Utah Stile & Design, Spring 2005, Vol. 9, No. 2, color photos pp. 81, 85, 87.

Sveve Oberbeck, "Forging Art from the Flames," The Salt Lake Tribune, August 10, 2003, Section E, p. 3.

Lidia Kurdyumova, "Blacksmith," Monomakh, Russia, Autumn 2001, pp. 77-79.

Valentina Chernova, "Flowers of the Provinces," Okna (Windows), Samara, Russia, May 2001, Vol. 8, p. 19.

Ilya Kazantsev, "How I Worked at "Korch," Ulyanovskaya Nedelya, Russia, August 16, 2000, p. 20.

Tatyana Egorova, "At the Blacksmith Shop-A Holiday," Ulyanovskaya Pravda, Russia, October 5, 1999, p. 6.

Nadejda Kolesnikova, "Blacksmiths Bring Back to Life the Old "Iron-Age'Ways," Narodnaya Gazeta, Ulyanovsk, Russia, August 7, 1999, p. 4.

Igor Davidov, "Masters of Delicate Metal Forging," Bankovskaya Panorama, Russia, September 1998, pp. 12-13.

Elena Kupriyanova, "Nine Blacksmith Surprises in America," Narodnaya Gazeta, Ulyanovsk, Russia, June 17, 1998, p. 7.

Anna Volnevich, "Our Blacksmiths are great guys," Ulyanovskaya Pravda, Russia, Oktober 8, 1996, p. 3.

Svetlana Petrova, "At the Anniversary They Let All the Guests Pound...On the Anvil," Vedomosti, Russia, October 8, 1996, p. 2.

Tatyana Stadler, "Anniversary of the Ulyanovsk Union of Artists," Argumenty i Fakty, Russia, October 2, 1996, p. 3.

Svetlana Chernikova, "Charming with Metal," Ulyanovskaya Pravda, Russia, Oktober 10, 1995, p. 10.

V.S.Ledzinskiy, A.A.Telichko, A.G. Navrotskiy, Y.A. Zimin, Modern Artistic Smithing, Metallurgiya, Moscow, Russia, 1994, pp. 332, 475, B/W photo.

Aleksey Yaroslavtsev, "A Job for Real Men," Ulyanovskaya Pravda, Russia, November 12, 1991, p. 5.