Theme: Favorite Forgings of 2024

The theme is very simple – what were your best projects of 2024? This is your chance to take stock of what you’ve accomplished during the year and to show off what makes you proud.

Deadline: February 1, 2025

Guidelines:

• Use the online form to submit your info and images for the current exhibition theme.
• All submitted work must have been completed during the 2024 calendar year.
• Work should be at least 50% forged.
• If you wish to submit more than one (1) entry, please submit each entry separately.
• This is open to everyone! ABANA membership is not required.
• Selected works will be exhibited as part of the online group show. (This means not all submissions will be selected.)
• We will also post a good number of submitted pieces on social media. (Again, this means that not all submissions will be posted.)
• The online exhibition will run from March 1, 2025, through July 1, 2025.

By submitting your work, you are granting permission for us to post your submission on any of our platforms, including, but not limited to, our website, our publications, and on social media. Credit will be given as listed on the form.

If you have any questions, send us an email.

Check out our other online exhibition:

From the Garden will be on view September 1 through January 1, 2025. Visit the Exhibition.

Here’s the remaining 2025 calendar of upcoming online exhibitions so you can plan your entries! 

Connections: Submission deadline May 1, 2025

Exhibition: June 1, 2025 – September 1, 2025

(Anything involving steel connected to steel or steel combined with another material.)

On the Edge: Submission deadline August 1, 2025

Exhibition: September 1, 2025 – January 1, 2026

(Sharp things: axes, froes, drawknives, blades, etc.)

Making Waves: Submission deadline November 1, 2025

Exhibition: December 1, 2025 – April 1, 2026

(Anything related to water: flowing lines, fountains, water scenes, etc.)

Submitted images should be in focus, free of clutter, and well composed. Think beyond resting the item on an anvil or open palm. Pay attention to what is present in the background – a sheet or blanket can make a suitable background. Leave some breathing room around the object – cropping too closely limits how the photos can be used. If you took the picture with your phone, look at it on a larger screen first to ensure it is not fuzzy or pixelated. Images that are of poor quality may not be shown. Professionally photographed items are welcome, but please list the photographer’s name in the description box so we can give credit. Poor quality images may not be included.