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 ...

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 ...

Abby Henry is pictured with her recycled artwork, “Paper Plate Dress,” made with paper plates and sewing pins. Century High School students entered sculptures made from recycled materials into a ...

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 -- ...

Junkyard art uses bolts, nuts, spark plugs, rods, pipes, gear, clutch plates, keys, soup cans, chains, springs, tyre rims and even kitchen utensils like the ‘tawa’! Art is fluid. It is seamless. It ...

On Bushkill Drive in Easton, the Greek god Atlas balances the world on his shoulders. Hidden beneath a layer of rust, the steel figure of a man has been hoisting a giant metal globe near the tree line ...

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 ...

SUMMIT COUNTY – Todd Buckendahl can make metal come alive. “I make things grow,” said Buckendahl, a local welder-sculptor. The 39-year-old first tried his hand at welding in his eighth-grade metal ...