Artisan Forge News Today

EAU CLAIRE — Modicum Brewing announced its closure Wednesday, a decision the announcement said owners “never really saw coming.”

Modicum Brewery pointed to lengthy construction timelines with no sure end, regulatory hurdles, and having nowhere to continue operating in the mean time, as key factors behind the difficult decision ...

The kiosk is the culmination of a collaboration by a collection of skilled artisans, notably woodworker Tim Brudnicki, artist and landscaper Joe Maurer, and Artisan Forge Metalworks. A work crew that included Brudnicki, Maurer, and Greg Johnson of ...

Are you ready? Mack John announced on Facebook that she will be touring around Eau Claire and other parts of Wisconsin performing songs from her newest album, I’m Not Ready.

Only found in the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, “spirit bears” or Kermode Bears, are white-furred black bears that come from a recessive gene found in one of every ten black bears in the forest. There are only about 250 spirit bears and they are protected by the Kitasoo/Xai’xais...

Like handmade art from new, local artists? Interested in animal teeth and bones as earrings? Then Kala Rehberger is the artist to check out. If you’ve purchased some of Rehberger’s jewelry from Tangled Up In Hue, Truckers Union, or Black Kettle Tea & Bootique ...

Can’t say I wasn’t warned. “Expect the unexpected,” slogans tout, here in “the land of originality.” That land isn’t Oz, it’s Eau Claire. Eau Claire, Wisconsin (pop. 70,000, 95 miles east of the Twin Cities) is the second-fastest growing city (after Madison) in the state. Sure, its kids may go a ...