Very cool! I took an intro to welding workshop a couple of summers back - took my wife to the next one - she really likes making welded art projects...working on a fence right now - and she's doing wire-art, including a '64 Dart :-)
Metal art and rod iron fences were super popular for people in the Southwest when we lived there. When the Recession hit, my dad took up projects like the fence gates, making headboards and lots of iron art that he sometimes powdercoated too. It was some beautiful stuff, thankfully he didn't sell all of it. Endless possibilities it seems. That wire-art sounds super cool!
It's great to hear that there are little workshops like that in other places too, seems like so many are dying out. I most likely wouldn't have found my true passion for cars if I didn't join Auto Shop on a whim...